Author: Sea Mar Community Health Centers
The influencers of pandemic gardening
Espiritu is behind Epic Gardening, the hugely popular, multiplatform gardening social media presence. At age 32, the San Diego-based gardener has laid down roots in YouTube (660,000 subscribers), Instagram (221,000), TikTok (523,000), even Pinterest, and his follower count easily crests 2 million across them. Thanks to a mix of advertising revenue and brand deals –…
Capital Rx Establishes Scholarship at Howard University to Assist Subsequent Generation of Pharmacists
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Capital Rx, the fastest-growing pharmacy benefit manager (“PBM”) in the U.S., has established the Dr. James McCune Smith Endowed Scholarship fund to support the next generation of pharmacists at Howard University’s College of Pharmacy. Black men and women are critically underrepresented in healthcare, comprising only 5.25% of pharmacists and 6% of surgeons and…
How the Confederates Conquered The United States’s “Home of the Infantry”
home of the infantry,” is to the United States Army. It is there, along the Georgia-Alabama border, where young men and—since 2017—women spend half a year in training to join the Army’s “main land combat force and backbone,” earning blue shoulder cords on their dress uniforms that mark them as infantry soldiers. Elsewhere on Fort…
Watch shows doable contemporary lifesaving coronavirus drug in UK
Study shows possible new lifesaving coronavirus drug in UK – YouTube
Berkeley’s Progressive Genomics Institute is rolling out a spit test for COVID-19 sorting out
Scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, have begun trials of a new spit test for COVID-19 infections developed by the university’s Innovative Genomics Institute. Since the disease was first identified on U.S. shores, the Berkeley research institute led by the trailblazing CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna has worked tirelessly to bring innovative methods to diagnose…
Venezuela poverty price surges amid economic crumple, inflation -gaze
CARACAS, July 7 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s poverty rate surged in 2019 to levels unmatched elsewhere in Latin America as the once-prosperous OPEC nation’s hyperinflationary economic collapse continued for a sixth straight year, according to a study published on Tuesday. The 2019-2020 National Survey of Living Conditions (ENCOVI), conducted by researchers at Andres Bello Catholic University…
Native People Voyaged to Polynesia Long Ahead of Europeans Reached the Americas, DNA Glimpse Shows
Sunrise at the Tongariki site on Easter Island.Image: Andres Moreno-EstradaIndigenous South Americans reached islands in the South Pacific some 300 years before Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas, according to new genetic evidence.New genetic research published today in Nature links indigenous South Americans to Polynesian Islanders. Incredibly, it seems a group from what is today…
Use the Shortest, Coldest Wash Cycle to Protect Your Dresses
Photo: ShutterstockWhen you buy an item of clothing, the idea is typically to keep it looking new for as long as you can. (This clearly doesn’t apply to things like sweatshirts and sleeping T-shirts, which only get better with age and multiple trips to the washing machine.) But washing your clothes is necessary, and most…
English universities must dispute ‘commitment’ to free speech for bailouts
Universities in England needing bailouts to survive the impact of Covid-19 will have to demonstrate their commitment to free speech as well as closing courses with low graduate pay, Gavin Williamson …
Fact test: Letter criticising calls to prefer Rhodes statue was as soon as no longer written by Oxford College
Social media posts have shared a letter critical of black students who are attending Oxford University as Rhodes scholars and who have called for a statue of 19th century colonialist Cecil Rhodes to be removed from a college at the university. Reuters Fact Check. REUTERS/Axel SchmidtThe posts make the false claim that the letter, which…
