"So if you're trying to adjust to the time change or are just ready to change your habits overall, what can you do?… It turns out, nighttime rituals can take you only so far. Getting good sleep is very much dependent on your daytime routines, beginning the moment you wake up… So in addition to committing eight hours to your bed each night, here are five things you can do during the day to sleep better tonight."
"Using instruments that measure seismic waves, scientists know that these two blobs (in Earth's Mantle) have complicated shapes and structures, but despite their prominent features, little is known about why the blobs exist or what led to their odd shapes."
"The outburst came from a very young star just starting its evolution, and the image shows a jet of gas traveling supersonically. The glow you see in the image comes from the jet colliding with gas and dust around the star, officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) wrote in an image description on Monday (March 7)."
"A recording obtained by CPR News reveals Coloradans for Energy Access, a coalition to defend access to gas stoves and water heaters, is being led by a natural gas utility and a strategic communication firm, raising questions about whether state regulations are strong enough to ensure ratepayers aren’t helping finance the effort to beat back local climate policies."
"Despite the simple logic of supply and demand and the moves of many companies to completely cut ties with Russia, conspiracy theorists are still convinced the adoption of electric cars is a way for the government to gain more control over its citizens. 'I don’t know who needs to hear this, but high gas prices will push more people to electric cars that can be frozen just like your bank account,' another post said." Whackaloon quotient continues to be stratospheric. Seriously, first you need to come up with a reason why "freezing" your car would somehow be in the government's interest and then you need to explain how this is different than the current situation (you can stop a car by disabling it's electronics right now).
"Companies are betting hundreds of billions of dollars on electric cars and trucks. To make them, they'll need a lot of batteries. And that means they need a lot of minerals, like lithium, cobalt and nickel, to be dug up out of the earth… And there's another big challenge: The existing supply chain is dominated by a single country: China."
"A British biotech firm this week got the green light from U.S. regulators to release over 2 million genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida and California as part of an expanded effort to combat transmission of diseases like Zika, dengue fever and canine heartworm."
"Doctors are trying to raise awareness that even people in their 40s should be getting screened. Thankfully, there are multiple ways to reduce the risk of colon cancer, including understanding when you should get screened."
"This winter’s flu vaccine was a particularly bad match for the most common influenza strain in circulation, a new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found. Thankfully, the flu season was much milder than usual for the second year in a row, as ongoing covid-19 precautions likely blunted the spread of flu as well."
"Golden doesn't describe himself as a germaphobe or a worrier in general. He doesn't have any health problems that would put him at high risk. He and his wife are fully vaccinated and boosted. They just aren't ready to take that leap… Even though the omicron surge is fading, Golden knows the virus is still infecting more than 35,000 people, and killing more than 1,200, every day in the U.S."
"A full two years into the coronavirus pandemic, long-haul Covid patients remain sick and in desperate search of answers. They've lost jobs. They've lost their sense of self. Many say they have lost faith in the medical community."
"Up until late February, the CDC based its rankings of a county's level of risk on the amount of virus spreading there and what portion of lab tests were found to be positive. The new framework instead focuses on the situation in hospitals — how many people are being admitted for COVID-19 and how much capacity is left… Critics of CDC's new approach say the agency seems to have moved the goalposts to justify the political imperative to let people get back to their normal lives."
"Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed 81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to militant groups, the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom in its modern history."
"An armed suspect opened fire Saturday on two apparently homeless people who were sleeping on the streets of New York City, killing one and wounding the other, police said… The shootings happened about 90 minutes apart in Lower Manhattan and were caught on surveillance footage, the New York Police Department said."
"One person was arrested Saturday in connection with an incident involving several people, including cadets from the West Point military academy, overdosing on fentanyl on Thursday in Wilton Manors, Fla., police said." So those six kids on spring break were from West Point.
"Ukraine’s announcement that at least 1,300 of its soldiers have been killed so far during Russia’s invasion has been accompanied by an increasingly public acknowledgement of the country’s losses."
"An American journalist was killed and another was wounded by Russian forces in the town of Irpin outside the capital of Kyiv as they were traveling to film refugees, Ukrainian police said Sunday." And here we go.
"Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi says his country froze assets totaling hundreds of millions of dollars belonging or linked to several Russian oligarchs as part of sanctions imposed over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine… Yachts are not sailing under Draghi's radar. Italy announced Saturday that it had seized a $580 million superyacht linked to Russian energy and fertilizer magnate Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko."
"U.S. officials are examining the ownership of a $700 million superyacht currently in a dry dock in an Italian seacoast town and believe it could be associated with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, according to multiple people briefed on the information."
"A Republican congressman attacked by Donald Trump at a rally in South Carolina on Saturday called the former president a 'would-be tyrant'… Tom Rice voted to impeach Trump over the deadly Capitol attack and will face a Trump-endorsed challenger later this year." In Ohio's race for the senate seat being vacated by Rob Portman, two conservative candidates are vying to be recognized as the most Trumpian. One of the candidate's slogans is (and this is true) "Pro-God, Pro-Gun, Pro-Trump."
"Russia’s war in Ukraine: complete guide in maps, video and pictures."
"Russian air strikes on the Yavoriv military training ground killed 35 people, the Lviv regional administration said Sunday… A further 134 people have been hospitalized due to injuries caused by the early morning missile strikes, it added… More than 30 missiles fired from warplanes over the Black and Azov seas hit the military base, said Maksym Kozytsky, head of the Lviv regional military administration, in a statement posted to Facebook."
"Ryabkov said that Russia had 'warned the US that pumping weapons from a number of countries it orchestrates isn’t just a dangerous move, it’s an action that makes those convoys legitimate targets'." Ah, the escalation of rhetoric. "America, be afraid." Fuck you, Vlad. Go back to driving a cab.
"Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed responsibility for a dozen ballistic missiles that struck Iraq’s northern Kurdish regional capital of Erbil in the early hours of Sunday, Iran’s state media reported, adding that the attack was against Israeli 'strategic centres.'"
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