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60 Years Ago: Astronaut John Glenn, the First American to Orbit the Earth Aboard Friendship 7 | SciTechDaily | Space News
By John Uri, NASA Johnson Space Center, February 21, 2022 In February 1962, the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union was in full swing. Both nations had developed spacecraft to send humans into space and selected a group of pilots to fly those spacecraft. The Soviets leaped ahead by placing the…
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Libraries Find New Roles as Pandemic Lingers — Voice of San Diego
As Omicron surge slows reopening process, new online services such as portable Wi-Fi access are hot By Randy Dotinga, February 4, 2022 San Diego’s head librarian Misty Jones has a lot of numbers on her mind these days, and not just the Dewey Decimal System. Residents just besieged branches to snap up 20,000 rapid covid…
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Naomi Watts Pushed Her Body to the Limit for Grueling ‘Lakewood’ – Variety
By Brent Lang, Sep 14, 2021 6:54am PT It was an acting challenge that Naomi Watts couldn’t pass up. In “Lakewood,” the Oscar-nominated star of such grueling exercises in cinematic heroics as “The Impossible” and “King Kong,” spends the bulk of the movie running through the forest, struggling with spotty cellphone reception while trying to…
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Teacher Stuck with $1,400 Fine from Library System that Killed Fines
San Diego libraries said goodbye to overdue fees. So how did a teacher end up with a $1,400 fine? By Bella Ross 10 hours ago The model embraced by most public libraries for retrieving borrowed materials has historically been a simple one: forget to return the item, you pay the price. The San Diego Public…
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Television Networks Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 – Variety
By Selome Hailu, https://variety.com/author/smhailu1/ Sep 3, 2021 4:41pm PT https://anchor.fm/drweb/embed/episodes/Television-Networks-Commemorate-the-20th-Anniversary-of-911–Variety-e170a73/a-a1ptln 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The nation has continued to process the terrorist event over the past two decades in many ways, including through television specials, documentaries and dramatized retellings. On and before the anniversary, networks will air content unpacking…
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Human Evolution Offers Clues For Modern Brain Health : Shots – Health News : NPR
June 18, 20215:00 AM ET, by Bret Stetka It’s something that many of us reckon with: the sense that we’re not quite as sharp as we once were. I recently turned 42. Having lost my grandfather to Alzheimer’s, and with my mom suffering from a similar neurodegenerative disease, I’m very aware of what pathologies might…
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Couple’s walk across America to end in Myrtle Beach | wltx.com
LEXINGTON, S.C. — A California couple has been walking across America to raise awareness and money for a nonprofit. Grace Nesseth and Matt Grooms started their journey out of Huntington Beach, California, on October 2nd. They plan to finish their cross-country walk on May 1st in Myrtle Beach. Grooms got the idea to walk across…
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Doomscrolling Is Slowly Eroding Your Mental Health | WIRED
Checking your phone for an extra two hours every night won’t stop the apocalypse—but it could stop you from being psychologically prepared for it. It’s 11:37 pm and the pattern shows no signs of shifting. At 1:12 am, it’s more of the same. Thumb down, thumb up. Twitter, Instagram, and—if you’re feeling particularly wrought/masochistic—Facebook. Ever…
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Times They Are A-Changing, February 23, 2020
February 23rd, 2020 Quote of the Day.. “To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships..” -W.E.B. DuBois (born this date) Quote source “This Isn’t an Election: It’s a Civil War, and Our Side Isn’t Necessarily Winning.” 2020. Salon.…
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Times They Are A-Changing, February 20, 2020
February 20th, 2020 Quote of the Day.. “The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.” -Robert M. Pirsig Quote source Biographer and Friend of Hemingway Dies.. “Remembering Ernest Hemingway Biographer A. E. Hotchner.” n.d. NPR.Org. Accessed February 18, 2020.. https://www.npr.org/2020/02/18/806991677/remembering-ernest-hemingway-biographer-a-e-hotchner Library Notes.. “Lawyer-librarian answers questions…
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Times They Are A-Changing, February 18, 2020
February 18th, 2020 High Times for Marijuana Votes Coming.. 11 States Where You Might Be Voting on Major Marijuana Reforms This November. 2020. Salon. February 17, 2020.. https://www.salon.com/2020/02/17/11-states-where-you-might-be-voting-on-major-marijuana-reforms-this-november_partner/ Cooking? Need a Cookbook? Looks like this restaurant in South Carolina has a solution for you.. free cookbooks.. https://www.southernliving.com/travel/south-carolina/greenville-south-carolina-table-301-catering-kitchen-cookbook-library Movie Insights.. One of the favorite films I…
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Times They Are A-Changing, February 17, 2020
February 17th, 2020 Library News.. Looks like there will be a new East Valley library in Escondido, CA.. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/communities/north-county/escondido/story/2020-02-17/long-overdue-escondido-partners-with-college-for-an-east-valley-library Coronavirus Update.. That cruise ship with the Americans on board is having more issues, very tough events for those travelers.. https://www.npr.org/2020/02/16/806470340/americans-evacuate-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-amid-spread-of-infection Democratic Nomination 2020.. There’s worries that Bernie Sanders might be the Democratic nominee, and it…
