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Climate change is making extreme heat more dangerous. Cities need to act. |
A man covers his head and neck to protect himself from the high temperature during a heat wave in Amritsar, Punjab state, northern India, on April 29, 2022. Str / Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images |
Extreme weather patterns are being worsened by climate change all over the world, according to climate scientists. Last summer, the Pacific Northwest struggled through record high temperatures that killed more than 1,000 people. More recently, a staggering heat wave in India and Pakistan exposed more than a billion people to extreme heat for weeks and killed at least 25 people since late March. If Earth's temperature reaches 1.5 degrees Celsius — which we are expected to reach in the 2030s or early 2040s — we could see 30,000 people die each year because of extreme heat, according to an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report from last August. Substantial cuts to greenhouse gas emissions require rapid, aggressive intervention on a systemic level. But there are things communities can do to mitigate the growing health risk. In Phoenix, Arizona, for example, the city plans to close trailheads during hot days, add more shade across the city, implement organized telephone-based wellness checks to connect with at-risk residents, and knock on doors to make people in vulnerable neighborhoods aware of cooling centers — all with the end goal of lowering its fatality rate during the hottest summer months. "Cities can pull so many other levers that are important to shaping not only how hot our city is, but also how people are coping with that," said David Hondula, Phoenix's director of the Office of Heat Response and Mitigation. |
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STAYING ON TOP OF THIS US steps up in assisting Ukraine |
- The US provided intel to Ukraine that helped it sink a critical Russian flagship, NBC revealed. It's a move that demonstrates the US's increasing involvement in fighting with Ukraine against Russia.
- Nearly 500 civilians have been evacuated from the Mariupol steel plant as of Friday, Ukrainian officials report. Mariupol has been bombed and under siege for months at this point, and the majority of the city is under Russian control.
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Strip club dancers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in Los Angeles plan to form a union. If successful, the group says they would become the only strip club in the country to currently have union representation. Elon Musk will fund his Twitter deal with money from countries that suppress free speech. As Musk scrambles to pull together funding for the $44 billion deal, the billionaire plans to accept financing from two countries that have historically restricted freedom of speech: Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The man who tackled Dave Chappelle has been charged with battery. Authorities have not released any information about a possible motive. Ray J leaked his private DMs with Kim Kardashian after claiming they planned their sex tape's release with Kris Jenner. "You're watching a whole family create an empire from a lie they've created, it's heartbreaking and disrespectful to all the entertainers who have been honest and true to their craft," he added. |
COMPETING WHILE BLACK College football referees penalized teams with Black coaches more often than those with white coaches, a study suggests |
College football teams with Black coaches are given five to seven extra penalties per season compared to ones with white coaches, a new study of the highest division teams has found. The Social Science Quarterly study held true even adjusting for the quality of the players, coaches, and schools studied. While the penalty effect is newsworthy, it "does not necessarily mean that race is the cause of the penalties, just that there is a strong relationship between having a Black head coach and receiving more penalties," said Jeremy Foreman of University of Louisiana at Lafayette, who has done separate research finding Black players were more often penalized in football. That might partly explain the penalty effect found in the study, he suggested, if Black coaches end up recruiting more Black players, who are in turn penalized disproportionately. These findings come amid rising concern about the dearth of Black coaches at both the professional and college level in football, a sport where 7 out of 10 players in its highest ranks, the NFL, are Black.
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"NARRATIVE SHARING IS SUCH A HUGE WAY TO SHIFT CULTURE" Instagram has become a space for people to share their abortion stories |
Ben King for BuzzFeed News |
In the face of potential rollbacks to the right to an abortion by the Supreme Court, people are uniting to defend reproductive rights online. Following the leaked opinion draft earlier this week, the Women's March Foundation Instagram account temporarily went private and ran a comment section on one of their posts as a chat room where people could share their experiences with abortion. HEART, a sexual health organization supporting Muslims, invited women to secure Zoom calls where space was made for them to talk about their experiences with abortion and their struggles with legislation. And countless abortion rights activists have put together social media infographics and illustrations to fight disinformation online about reproductive health. "We know that narrative sharing is such a huge way to shift culture," Sahar Pirzada, HEART's programs and outreach manager, said. "The more visible these stories are, the more we can normalize it so that we can reduce the stigma, reduce the shame." |
SPRING TO SUMMER Longreads for those long nights |
Maggie Shannon for BuzzFeed News |
He was 5'7". After surgery, he'll be 5'10". When I met Scott, he was two months into recovering from limb-lengthening surgery. In this elaborate $75,000 procedure, a doctor breaks both femurs and inserts a titanium rod that slowly expands inside the patient's body, making them permanently taller. This week, Scott was given clearance to stop using the walker. He can drive now, but sports are still off the table. The recovery requires stretching and regular monitoring. For the first three months, he will attend physical therapy four times a week. But for Scott, all of this is a small price to pay. "It allows me to not spiral out of control and lose hours of my day anymore." Surgically lengthening limbs is not new. It has existed in some form for nearly 100 years. People wounded in military service or car crashes would get the procedure, often as a way to correct mismatched length in legs. What is relatively new is the deployment of the surgery for elective and cosmetic ends — that's only about 15 years old. In other words, people are now choosing to undergo the procedure just because they want to. His wife was found dead at the foot of a staircase. The world has debated his guilt ever since. In December 2001, Michael Peterson called 911 to report that his wife, Kathleen, had had an accident. "She fell down the stairs," he told the operator, apparently in hysterics. "She's still breathing! Please come!" By the time police arrived at their 19-room Durham, North Carolina, home, Kathleen was dead. The copious amount of blood around the staircase made her death suspicious, with her husband the prime suspect. Days later, Peterson, a novelist and former mayoral candidate, was arrested for murder. The subsequent trial debating Peterson's innocence split his family apart — and captured public fascination for years. The new HBO miniseries The Staircase presents an interesting potential scenario that mixes insights from the prosecution and defense witnesses to arrive at a kind of centrist possible explanation. But given how much fantasy and speculation has surrounded the story, and the series' prestige meta approach, one would hope for a more ambitious perspective — perhaps some commentary on the murderous husband trope or on our fascination with true crime itself. 10 years ago, a man jizzed in a shoebox and the internet was never the same The photos of the box are simultaneously inscrutable and captivating, visually. And then there is the telling of the tale, the frank and unexpected throwaway admission that quickly escalates into a box of horrors beneath Reddit user u/lynfect's bed. There's Shakespearian drama to it: His initial mortal sin of sloth, which led him to use the box. His broken promises to himself that he'll throw it away. His remorse and disgust at what he had created. And finally, his inability to free himself — even with fire — from the hideous monster that he'd created. He is cumbox Lady Macbeth desperately trying to wash the splooge from his hands. In 2012, cumbox was a watershed moment for Reddit, a high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. "Internet culture" at the time was something that existed off to the side of mainstream culture, with viral cats, image macro memes, "epic bacon" type stuff — and Reddit was the premier destination for it. Simultaneously, it was also a widely acknowledged cesspool of misogyny, racism, and horror. And ten years later, the debate over "free speech" on social platforms is the hot topic again.
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Is the way you talk to yourself as supportive and patient as the way you talk to others? Alexa |
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