Science: On hot days, it helps to stay in the shade
Who saw this coming? Shade is an essential solution for hotter cities (nature.com)
Climate, Follow up: The hottest sea temperature ever recorded
What happened with the 101 deg F hottest ocean temp this week? Within hours, it dropped by 4 deg C and by about 9 deg C lower within 2 days.
Public health: King County may rehire those it fired over vaccine mandates
The County lost hundreds of employees over vaccine mandates. Hundreds were fired and hundreds more resigned to avoid being fired. Now, faced with a labor shortage – in some departments,…
Education, Demographics: Students pursing degrees in education have plummeted
Enrollment in college education majors has plummeted since the peak in 1970. With a shrinking youth population, might not be best time to enter education.
Practice Factfulness
Practice factfulness and learn to think for yourself. If you do not practice factfulness, then you are being manipulated to believe things that are not true. And you have no…
Autos: NHTSA proposes 58 mpg auto fleet requirement
Is this technically feasible? US proposes raising vehicle fuel economy standards to 58 miles per gallon by 2032 | Reuters This is separate from an EPA proposal making what some…
Business, Demographics: Lack of kids means lack of toy sales
Mattel Needs Barbie’s Movie Magic to Lift Toy Sales – WSJ Toy R Us filed bankruptcy in 2017 and liquidated everything in 2018. The bankruptcy was blamed on not being…
Business, Work: Weight stigma has a strong negative bias in the work place
And not just the work place. Those who are overweight have a harder time getting hired, get paid less, and are promoted less, says research. The Hidden Career Cost of…
Demographics: Immigration accounts for 1 in 3 new workers in the U.S.
But the supply of workers has since rebounded by about 10.6 million people. That recovery has owed partly to a pickup in the foreign-born labor force, which has accounted for…
Climate: How is a weather “heat alert” determined?
The NWS calculates a “heat index” that takes into account both air temperature and humidity. You can convert your local air temperature to a heat index value using this NWS…