Other Cool Stuff From Around the World, Mostly By Gina
Friday, July 9, 2021
SFGate: Researcher estimates 1 billion sea creatures died in Canada heat wave
SFGate: African American spelling bee champ makes history with flair
WLOX: Caught on camera: Incredible fire tornado seen during Calif. blaze
Press Democrat: 47 test positive for COVID-19 in Santa Rosa homeless shelter outbreak
Thursday, July 8, 2021
East Bay Times: Oakland man charged with distributing thousands of LSD tabs in case tied to huge UC Santa Cruz psychedelic drug bust
Vox: The lie of “expired” food and the disastrous truth of America’s food waste problem
Digg: Video: Here's How The Richest Americans Get Away Without Paying Taxes gi
Gizmodo: Ban Mansions: The rich are never going to clean up their homes on their own.
BBC: Wild Herbs: The Albanian mountain crops that keep us looking young
Digg: The Winners Of The 2021 Audubon Photography Awards Are Breathtaking
Sacramento Bee: No escaping heat in the mountains: Record-high temperatures to bake Lake Tahoe, Yosemite
SFGate: 6.0 magnitude quake is biggest of earthquake cluster near Tahoe
SFGate: Mills College alumnae sue school over pending shutdown, merger
NY Times: ‘In the End We Felt Betrayed’: Vietnamese Veterans See Echoes in Afghanistan
NY Times: Fitbits Detect Lasting Changes After Covid-19
NY Times: Corporations: This Is Tax Evasion, Plain and Simple
NY Post: LA County authorities seize $1 billion in weed in historic takedown
NY Post: 4-year-old boy fatally shoots self outside Colorado marijuana dispensary
Washington Post: Air Force mostly responsible for church massacre in Sutherland Springs, Tex., judge says
Washington Post: How May Edwards became the forgotten whistleblower
Politico: Delta variant said to be far more widespread than federal estimates
Politico: ‘Deeply alarmed’: China now ahead of U.S. on privacy law
The Guardian: FBI infiltrates militia-style group formed under ‘Bible study’ cover
The Guardian: The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth
The Hill: The rise of a generation of censors: Law schools the latest battlement over free speech
The Hill: World's biggest sandcastle breaks record set just two years ago
The Guardian: Corporate studies asserting herbicide safety show many flaws, new analysis finds
The Guardian: ‘It’s exhausting’: how Navajo students overcame the pandemic school year
The Guardian: ‘Heat dome’ probably killed 1bn marine animals on Canada coast, experts say
AP News: Michael Avenatti faces sentencing in Nike extortion scheme
AP News: As global COVID-19 deaths top 4 million, a suicide in Peru
LA Times: California parents want to keep online learning as a fall option, poll finds
LA Times: Pandemic caused many boomers to retire. What that means for the economy
Cal Matters: Inside one city’s multimillion-dollar effort to convert motels into affordable housing
KTLA: New, rare gray wolf pack identified in Northern California
KTLA: Mask mandate returns for California lawmakers, staff after COVID outbreak at Capitol
KTLA: After months of decline, the number of coronavirus cases is rising again in California
KCRA: Should vaccinated people take precautions at hotels?
The Oregonian: Oregon’s heat wave death toll grows to 116
KRCR: Siskiyou sheriff speaks on environmental impacts of illegal pot farms, water restrictions
KRCR: Helicopter crashes while working on the Lava Fire on Wednesday
Mt. Shasta News: Wildfire roundup: 5 fires burning in and around Siskiyou
Mt. Shasta News: Helicopter on Lava Fire does 'emergency landing' in Lake Shastina
Mt. Shasta News: Where are the trains? UP closes line through Siskiyou until Lava Fire damage is repaired
SFGate: California governor kicks off $1B statewide trash & litter cleanup plan
SFGate: LA reels from alarming spike in killings, shootings amid fears of a violent summer
Press Democrat: Lawsuit seeks halt to new well approvals, for sake of Russian River
Press Democrat: Repeat DUI offender guilty of murder in 100 mph crash that killed Windsor mom of twins
Ukiah Daily Journal: Fire in Redwood Valley burns structures, evacuates residents
Anderson Valley Advertiser: Grand Jury Rips Mendo Coast Parks & Rec District