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Senator Ted Cruz is trying his best to get back into Texans’ good graces. On Sunday, Cruz posted pictures of himself delivering water to residents in need following the devastating winter storm that impacted the state. This is WRONG. No power company should get a windfall because of a natural disaster, and Texans shouldn’t get hammered […]
Scientists who accidentally came across bizarre life forms on a boulder way beneath Antarctica’s ice shelves are surprised (and puzzled) by their incidental discovery. The find, which was published in Frontiers in Marine Science on Monday, came about as researchers drilled through nearly 3,000 feet of ice in the southeastern Weddell Sea (the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf) when they saw […]
On Monday officials in Pinellas County, Florida held a press conference in which they made an announcement that an unidentified hacker had remotely gotten into a panel that controls the water treatment system for the city of Oldsmar, and then greatly bumped up the amount of sodium hydroxide (a.k.a. lye) in the water supply. Pinellas County Sheriff […]
Naegleria fowleri, a brain-eating amoeba, was found in the water supply of Brazosport Water Authority customers in Texas on Friday evening, forcing the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to issue a water advisory and tell those customers to not to use any of their water. According to CNN, the Do Not Use Water Advisory was initially issued for residents […]
A little girl was rescued by a ferry crew over the weekend after the inflatable unicorn she was sitting on got swept out to sea in Greece, the New York Post reports. The bizarre scene occurred about half a mile off the shore of the town of Antirrio in the Gulf of Corinth. The girl, believed to be either four […]
Nestled between Mars and Jupiter in the asteroid belt, the dwarf planet Ceres is believed to have once had all the essential minerals—liquid water, energy, and carbon-bearing organic molecules—required to sustain life, National Geographic reports. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft orbited Ceres for about a year to learn more about the formation of bright spots made up […]
Health officials have confirmed the presence of a rare, deadly, brain-eating amoeba in Florida’s Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa and several other cities. On Friday, the Florida Department of Health announced that a person in the county had been infected with naegleria fowleri, a single-celled living amoeba that can cause a serious brain infection called […]
A statue of Christopher Columbus at Byrd Park, which is located in Richmond, Virginia and was dedicated back in 1927, was torn down and thrown into Landing at Fountain Lake. Images of the incident, which went down on Tuesday night, circulated on social media with many applauding the statue’s removal. Protesters used ropes to tear down the statue, ABC 8 […]
As places around the world begin to close their businesses and borders, there are still a number of cruise ships stranded at sea that can’t get dock due to coronavirus concerns. The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) is made up of 38 cruise companies with a total of 277 ships. On March 13, the CLIA decided to suspend operations […]
As an unforeseen consequence of Italy’s coronavirus lockdown, their air and water appears to be getting cleaner due to the lack of humans being outside to contaminate them. Whether the same can be said for local computer monitors and phone screens? Well, during times like these you take what you can get. As an example […]
