Getting the kids ready to go back to school each fall is stressful enough in a normal year, never mind in the midst of a pandemic. Between the more transmissible Delta coronavirus variant, rising cases across the country and new masking guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there’s a lot for parents to navigate as they plan for schools to reopen this August and September.
On the whole, experts seem to agree it’s time to get kids back into their classrooms. Remote learning set many children—especially students of color—back academically, cut them off from essential social services like free or reduced-cost meals, and took a major toll on their mental health. As many districts have reduced remote schooling programs, even the…
A new dinosaur of titanic proportions unearthed in the Egyptian desert could help scientists shed light on the history of dinosaurs in Africa.
The find, named Mansourasaurus shahinae and described in a paper published Monday in the journal Nature, “is the most completely preserved land-living vertebrate” from the end of the Cretaceous Period ever found on mainland Africa, the study’s authors write. Researchers said that the sauropod, a long-necked herbivore, was 80 million years old, 33 feet long, and weighed as much as 5.5 tons, according to Reuters.
The remains, which included parts of the skull, jaw, shoulder, and forelimb, were discovered during an expedition from Egypt’s Mansoura University in 2013.
Scientists haile…
With evermore unhoused people on the streets of our biggest cities, and publicized subway crimes in New York, mental health treatment is again in the news. Politicians speak about “caring” for the mentally ill in a new way, which turns out to be the old way—putting them away. The mention of involuntary confinement, predictably, sparks anxiety and controversy, giving rise to the question of whom this policy is meant to help: the people taken away or the rest of population, those shopping, jogging, carrying groceries home, who, presumably, will no longer be bothered by the inconvenient reality of a person speaking to God, while blocking the sidewalk.
Nonetheless, whether or not present laws limiting involuntary commitments should be altered, as proposed by New York…
We’re not going to vaccinate our way completely out of this pandemic. With epidemiologists around the world increasingly accepting the reality that SARS-CoV-2 and its variants will become endemic viruses—like the seasonal flu—the push is on to develop antiviral medications that can be taken at home to prevent infections from leading to hospitalization and death. Today, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the Biden Administration has authorized $3.2 billion to accelerate the development of antivirals already in the R&D pipeline, with the hope that at least one will be ready for release before the end of the year.
“The remarkable and rapid development of vaccines and testing technology has shown how agile scientific discovery can be…
With each day since U.S. President Donald Trump reported that he tested positive for COVID-19, his doctors have added a new major therapy to treat the disease, for a total of three at this point.
On Friday—the same day that Trump said he tested positive—the President received an experimental combination of two monoclonal antibodies to help his immune system fight the coronavirus infection, according to his physician, Sean Conley. The next day—after he was hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center—he received the drug remdesivir, which blocks the coronavirus’s ability to make more copies of itself. Remdesivir is not approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, but has received emergency use authorization for treating COVID-19. …
The U.S. has recently taken a sharp turn toward “living with,” rather than trying to avoid, COVID-19. Masks are no longer advised indoors for Americans in most parts of the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and many mask and vaccine requirements have been repealed even in the most COVID-cautious parts of the country. In a poll conducted in March by Axios-Ipsos, 66% of Americans said they thought COVID-19 poses little or no risk.
It’s hard to blame people for relaxing a bit. For most vaccinated and boosted people, a case of COVID-19 is overwhelmingly unlikely to result in severe disease. But some experts say that the risk of Long COVID—the name for symptoms that last months or even more than a year after a COVID…
Conversion therapy—a practice aimed at changing someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity—has been widely discredited and is banned in 22 states and the District of Columbia. But more than 1,300 practitioners still offer conversion therapy in the U.S., according to a new report shared exclusively with TIME.
“It is shocking to still see so many different conversion therapy programs across the U.S., because all those programs are fraudulent,” says California Repคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Ted Lieu, who in June introduced a bill to ban conversion therapy at the federal level. “There is no scientific or medical basis for conversion therapy. It is a huge sc…
Marking the first ever Organic Textile Week (happening until Sunday), a new poll has revealed that people are “turning their backs on clothing brands that are intentionally misleading them”.The event is organised by the Organic Trade Board (OTB) and Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) to celebrate and promote certified organic textiles, “while informing consumers about how to identify truly organic options”.
They spoke to 2,000 people across the UK and found that as many as 70% claim to be less likely to buy again from a brand if that brand falsely claimed their products were organic.And 59% are “angry or disgusted to find some clothing brands claiming to be organic may actually contain hazardous synthetic pesticides and other chemicals”.Meanwhile, 57% think it’s im…
According to a report released by Walpole, the luxury trade body, the UK luxury industries now contribute £48 billion a year to the British economy. They include designer clothing and footwear, fine wines and spirits, luxury accessories, luxury jewellery and timepieces, high-end beauty and high-end car manufacturing.And there are signs the sector will continue to grow rapidly to an estimated £65 billion by 2024 if the UK and the European Union secure an agreement on their future trading relationship.
That is because the sector is increasingly export-focused, with 80% of production destined for overseas markets such as the European Union, North America and China. This is up 54% since 2013.International shoppers are also accounting for a significant proportion of luxury sales made…
Gildan said on Tuesday it will buy manufacturing equipment and intellectual property rights related to American Apparel, but the Canadian company did not assume the leases of its California manufacturing plants, fueling questions over where the clothing will be produced.Reuters reported late on Monday that Gildan had won the bankruptcy auction, which also attracted other bidders such as California-based apparel maker Next Level Apparel and had garnered interest from Amazon.com Inc.
Gildan had originally planned to take some of American Apparel’s manufacturing plants, but ultimately opted against it.Garry Bell, a Gildan spokesman, said the firm would decide where to make the clothing when it completes its integration plan for the brand.”We felt it was best to not assume these lease…