"The rainbow flag is flying proudly Thursday above the Bank of England in the heart of London's financial district to commemorate World War II codebreaker Alan Turing, the new face of Britain's 50-pound note… The design of the bank note was unveiled before it is set to be formally issued to the public on June 23, Turing's birthday. The 50-pound note is the most valuable denomination in circulation but is little used during everyday transactions, especially during the coronavirus pandemic as digital exchanges increasingly replaced the use of cash."
"An alarming trend is emerging as coronavirus hospitalization rates in the state this month are surging among younger people, a group with the lowest vaccination rates among the state's populations, according to inpatient data collected by the Michigan Health & Hospital Association… The group said Wednesday that from March 1 through Tuesday, hospitalizations increased by 633% for those aged 30 to 39 and by 800% for those aged 40 to 49." It ain't over yet, folks.
"A new 'double mutant' variant of the coronavirus has been detected from samples collected in India… Officials are checking if the variant, where two mutations come together in the same virus, may be more infectious or less affected by vaccines." News organizations really, really want to go full X-Men here.
"When she asks Black seniors in Los Angeles about the vaccine, Tuskegee rarely comes up. People in the community talk about contemporary racism and barriers to health care, she says, while it seems to be mainly academics and officials who are preoccupied with the history of Tuskegee." It's an easy reference point, however the problems are still present in healthcare.
"Now scientists have shed light on the reasons for the difference, by collecting cells from humans, chimps and gorillas and turning them into lumps of brain in the laboratory… Tinker with the switch and the human brain loses its growth advantage, while the great ape brain can be made to grow more like a human’s." What could go wrong? Paging David Brin…
"A man was arrested Wednesday after entering a Publix supermarket in Atlanta with five firearms and body armor, police said. The man, who Atlanta police have identified as 22-year-old Rico Marley, has been charged with reckless conduct." He just loved his freedom so much.
"Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet on Wednesday called on the Senate to act in the wake of a mass shooting at a supermarket in his state, asserting in an impassioned speech from the chamber floor that his colleagues have a moral obligation to a generation of young Americans who have lived through dozens of such attacks."
"First-time claims for unemployment insurance unexpectedly fell sharply last week amid signs that hiring has picked up in the U.S. economy, the Labor Department reported Thursday… Claims totaled 684,000 for the week ended March 20, the first time the number has been below 700,000 during the Covid-19 era. The level was a substantial decline from the 781,000 from a week earlier and was the lowest since March 14, 2020, just as the pandemic had begun." Note, that's still 3x the level of a "very bad month" pre-pandemic.
"The Japanese owner of the giant cargo ship that has been blocking Egypt's Suez Canal since Tuesday has apologised for the disruption to global trade… Shoei Kisen Kaisha said it was trying to resolve the situation as soon as possible, but that dislodging the Ever Given was proving extremely difficult."
"Chinese state TV called Thursday for a boycott of H&M as Beijing lashed out at foreign clothing and footwear brands following Western sanctions on Chinese officials accused of human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region."
"Amazon would really like Democratic lawmakers to forget stories about its warehouse workers peeing in bottles amid allegations of union-busting tactics… The retail giant told one of its critics, Democratic Rep. Mark, on Twitter on Wednesday: 'You don't really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?…'" You know, except for their policies and explicit printed rules about clearing out delivery vans of pee bottles.
"Congress is set to grill the chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter about misinformation and online extremism on Thursday, in the executives' first appearance before lawmakers since the Jan. 6 Capitol riots and the rollout of the coronavirus vaccine." Ah, it must be Spring again. Can't wait to hear the conservative rail agains being "silenced" when all they did was :: checks notes :: foment insurrection, call for the deaths of others, and generally behave like prats.
"A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent suspended for being at the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection said Tuesday that he has since been fired from the agency and is now 'the subject of a criminal investigation,' even though he claims he 'never even stepped foot on the stairs of the Capitol building.'" See, he was just documenting all the crime going on around him. Uh huh.
"Donald Trump is no longer in the White House, but his favorite cable news network, One America News Network, is still broadcasting from there — doing live shots from Pebble Beach, the North Lawn area that is considered precious real estate by the major TV networks."
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