Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Monday, June 29, 2020
Mike Pence in Dallas as Gov. Abbott says COVID-19 has taken 'very dangerous turn in Texas'
“What we are seeing here is a increased rate of hospitalization of 20-40 year olds … We know that’s the primary asymptomatic group,” she said, adding that those serious cases in that age group have underlying health conditions like diabetes or obesity.
She said that Dallas County “s more steady,” while cases are spiking in Bexar and Harris counties. As Birx was speaking, Dallas County reported another record in cases on Sunday — 570 — and one death.
Sunday, June 28, 2020
The Fed's reckless experiment
In the 49 days ending June 8, the money supply (M2) has increased by $1,018.6 billion. To put this into perspective, the money supply grew by $921 billion in all of 2019.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/504702-the-feds-reckless-experiment
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/504702-the-feds-reckless-experiment
Saturday, June 27, 2020
Where are the deaths? The drum beat to halt the reopenings gets louder by the day. It should be resisted
Texas’s daily death count has bounced around since early May without a sharp rise — a high of 63 new deaths on May 21, 42 on June 24.
https://spectator.us/where-deaths-coronavirus-wave/
https://spectator.us/where-deaths-coronavirus-wave/
More Children Live With Just Their Fathers Than a Decade Ago
In 2017, 83.9 percent of children living with one parent live with their mothers, compared to 86.0 percent in 2012 and 87.5 percent in 2007.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/living-arrangements.html#:~:text=16%2C%202017%20%E2%80%94%20The%20percentage%20of,and%20Living%20Arrangements%20table%20package.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/living-arrangements.html#:~:text=16%2C%202017%20%E2%80%94%20The%20percentage%20of,and%20Living%20Arrangements%20table%20package.
Friday, June 26, 2020
Thursday, June 25, 2020
Wednesday, June 24, 2020
Gov. Cuomo wants travelers from states with high coronavirus rates to isolate
States that currently meet that criteria include, Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Washington, Utah, and Texas, according to Cuomo.
https://nypost.com/2020/06/24/ny-nj-connecticut-to-impose-quarantine-for-travelers-from-florida/
https://nypost.com/2020/06/24/ny-nj-connecticut-to-impose-quarantine-for-travelers-from-florida/
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Monday, June 22, 2020
Sunday, June 21, 2020
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Friday, June 19, 2020
Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
Monday, June 15, 2020
Sunday, June 14, 2020
Where is the Land of Opportunity: The Geography of Intergenerational Mobility in the United States
The fraction of children living in single-parent households is the single strongest correlate of
upward income mobility among all the variables we explored...
https://scholar.harvard.edu/hendren/publications/economic-impacts-tax-expenditures-evidence-spatial-variation-across-us
https://scholar.harvard.edu/hendren/publications/economic-impacts-tax-expenditures-evidence-spatial-variation-across-us
Saturday, June 13, 2020
Friday, June 12, 2020
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
SOCIAL MEDIA President Trump tweets antifa conspiracy theory that originated on anonymous blog
Rouz’s report about Gugino cites an article from Conservative Treehouse, a far-right blog that frequently posts conspiracy theories. The blog post claims without evidence that Gugino is a “75-year-old professional agitator and Antifa provocateur” who “was attempting to capture the radio communications signature of Buffalo police officers.” The Conservative Treehouse post is written by a user named “Sundance,” who cites their own Twitter thread as proof of the conspiracy theory.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/president-trump-tweets-antifa-conspiracy-theory-originated-anonymous-blog-n1228356
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/president-trump-tweets-antifa-conspiracy-theory-originated-anonymous-blog-n1228356
Monday, June 8, 2020
Margaret Sanger
“How are we to breed a race of human thoroughbreds unless we follow the same plan? We must make this country into a garden of children instead of a disorderly back lot overrun with human weeds.” (1924)
Starting in 1916, Sanger’s clinics at first were aimed mainly at poor immigrant women. The first clinic was in a neighborhood “populated largely by Italians and Eastern European Jews,” according to the 2010 book “Birth Control on Main Street,” by Cathy Moran Hajo. Sanger did not open a Harlem clinic until the 1930s, even though infant mortality rates there were similar....
Sanger wrote in a 1939 letter. “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Sunday, June 7, 2020
Beekeeping
a list of sources:
www.honeybeesuite.com -- this master beekeeper writes a blog and newsletter. She's our favorite writer about bees so far: sensible, knowledgeable, and funny.https://txbeeinspection.tamu.edu/ -- this Texas A&M site has excellent information on IMP and varroa mites.
You Tube sites:
UofG Honey Bee Research Centre (University of Guelph, Canada) has numerous informative videos, often referenced by other beekeepers.Dyce Lab for Honey Bee Studies--Emma Mullin at Cornell U is my personal favorite presenter on bee videos. Clear, knowledgeable, and an excellent presenter.Vino Farm--this Massachusetts beekeeping has a vlog from the start to present of his beekeeping for the past 4 years. Funny and hard to stop watching.
Books:
Beginning Beekeeping, Tanya Phillips