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July 20th, 2022 - 11:46 pm § in Misc.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Namcha Barwa

This massive uplift, its highest peak rising above 25,000 feet, anchors the Himalayan mountain range’s eastern end. The massif’s size is hard to imagine; click on image to enlarge. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

July 20th, 2022 - 10:18 pm § in Politics

America’s crazy gun culture

A customer at a McDonald’s in Midvale, Utah, pulled a gun on an employee at the drive-through window “over an issue regarding his order.” When police came to arrest him, he didn’t comply with their orders to exit his car, so they opened the door and pulled him out. That’[...]

July 20th, 2022 - 9:54 pm § in Health, Politics

Live “red” and die

“During the COVID-19 pandemic, the link between politics and health became glaringly obvious,” Scientific American says (read article here). But death rates were already higher in red counties before the pandemic. See chart below. You don’t have to guess that Republicans are bad fo[...]

July 20th, 2022 - 9:31 pm § in Environment

Will global warming kill you?

Forget hot, muggy summers. Start thinking survival. Scientists are “alarmed about the increasing frequency of extreme heat paired with high humidity,” says a Scientific American article of July 19, 2022 (read it here). That’s because current heat waves are approaching “the th[...]