Brightpath Video
Writer Thomas D. Elias nails it with his concluding paragraph: "It adds us to a picture of blinkered, single-minded legislators pursuing old goals with little relevance in the post-pandemic world to come. That's why the current housing package deserves to disappear, just like Wiener's past failed efforts to rid California of single-family homes." … more »
Shogun_X
"Complex problems are called complex for a reason. They may be several layers deep; people may mistake mere symptoms for the real problem. Free-flowing capital breaks the link between prices and local incomes — and most of us are shut out." … more »
Bay Nature.org
"The Amanita phalloides species accounts for more than 90 percent of mushroom-related poisonings and fatalities worldwide." … more »
public domain
"The pursuit of achievement distracts from the deeply ordinary activities and relationships that make life meaningful. It might well be the story of someone whose never-ending quest for more and more success leaves them perpetually unsatisfied and incapable of happiness." … more »
Chrome
"Many people look for more privacy when they browse the web by using their browsers in privacy-protecting modes, called “Private Browsing” in Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Apple Safari; “Incognito” in Google Chrome; and “InPrivate” in Microsoft Edge." They are not getting the protections they think they are. … more »
Transparent California
The California Supreme Court just upheld the state’s prohibition on pension spiking, which was enacted in Governor Jerry Brown’s 2013 pension reform law (“PEPRA"). County pension plans had previously exploited statutory ambiguity that allowed employees could dramatically inflate pension benefits. … more »
JAMSTEC
This is the tale of scientists who went to down 20,000 feet into the ocean to some of its deepest, darkest depths, dug 250 feet down into the sediment, collected an ancient, 100 million year old, community of "dead" microbes, brought them back to life in a lab." … more »
NIH
"In the early stages of the pandemic, doctors and scientists focused on how COVID-19 — an acute respiratory disease — attacks the lungs. Two new studies out of Germany suggest that even if patients escape hospitalization, the virus can damage the heart. It’s too soon to determine if the damage is permanent, but the findings are not encouraging." … more »
Pile
"Some supposedly inert ingredients in common drugs—such as dyes and preservatives—may potentially be biologically active and could lead to unanticipated side effects, according to a preliminary new study by researchers from the UC San Francisco School of Pharmacy and the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR)." … more »
India.tv
"Diets high in protein, particularly protein from plants such as legumes (peas, beans and lentils), whole grains and nuts, have been linked to lower risks of developing diabetes, heart disease and stroke, while regular consumption of red meat and high intake of animal proteins have been linked to several health problems." … more »
