February 2021

This article was originally published by Sarah Wray on Cities today, the leading news platform for urban mobility and innovation reaching an international audience of city guides. For the latest updates,…

Reposted from Dr Roy Spencer’s Blog February 11th, 2021 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. SUMMARY: The Urban Heat Island (UHI) is shown to have affected U.S. temperature trends in the official NOAA 1,218-station USHCN dataset. I argue…

President Joe Biden's Covid-19 Response Team is holding a press conference on Friday on the pandemic that infected more than 27 million Americans and killed at least 475,457 people in about a year.Biden announced Thursday that his…

One of my favorite things to do was search the history books for old tech ads. The best found pieces are those that are so ahead of their time that they're ridiculously mundane by today's standards, but…

NASCAR completed its qualification process for the Daytona 500 on Thursday evening / Friday morning with the annual duels at Daytona International Speedway. The two 150-mile races not only set the starting positions for the race on…

To the casual observer, a rover landing on Mars can seem like old news, believe it or not. Especially after all the successes of NASA. But many probably do not know the so-called "Martian curse". The fact is that many of the spaceships…

Rev. Al Sharpton has been separated from his estranged wife for 17 years, but it looks like he's finally ready to leave things behind and finally get a divorce.According to TMZ, Al Sharpton and his wife, Kathy Jordan, split back in 2004,…

An increase in vaccinations in the coming weeks alone may not be enough to contain the spread of a coronavirus variant, which was first reported in the UK in December and has now emerged in the US, said Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner…

From the Institute for Public Affairs Supreme Court rules Peter Ridd's free speech case Gideon Rozner February 11, 2021 The Public Affairs Institute today welcomed the historic High Court ruling in the James Cook University…

Minnesota Center Timberwolves Karl-Anthony Towns said there were nights after he tested positive for COVID-19 when his "vital signs were not good" and that his underlying conditions and genetics were his battle with the virus sometimes made…