July 2022

BY NATASHA DALY Thursday, July 21, 2022 The migratory monarch butterfly—the iconic subspecies common to North America—was declared endangered today by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global leading authority on the status of biological diversity.  The butterfly, known for its twice-yearly, 2,500-mile journey across the continent between its summer and winter grounds,…

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By Danny McDonald Globe Staff, Updated July 15, 2022, 6:03 p.m. But white supremacist movements have deep roots in Massachusetts and New England, historians said. While the displays of propaganda are shockingly hateful and vile, they are far from new. The Colonists, of course, codified slavery in Massachusetts in 1641, more than a century before the United States…

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Suddenly losing your hair? The culprit could be your prescription medications By Cynthia E. Keen at AARP Like turning gray, hair loss can be a natural part of aging. But alopecia, the medical term for hair loss, is a complex condition with many variations, from slow-progressing balding (referred to as male- or female-pattern hair loss) to more rapid…

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President Biden revealed the first full-color image taken by NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which can capture the highest quality and most detailed pictures of space of any telescope ever built. The telescope snapped the sharpest and deepest picture of our universe to date, showing a mess of galaxies that no human has seen before.…

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This day in history: ‘Disco Demolition Night’ On this day in 1979, nearly 50,000 people packed Comiskey Park on the southwest side of Chicago to watch local DJ and notorious disco hater Steve Dahl blow up a bunch of disco records in between a White Sox doubleheader. “Disco Demolition Night” remains one of the seminal…

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Houston, Tx The Children’s Museum of Houston 1500 Binz, Houston, TX 77004 713-522-1138 Houston Museum of Natural Science 5555 Hermann Park Dr., Houston, TX 77030 713-639-4629 The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet St. The Audrey Jones Beck Building, 5601 Main St., Houston, TX 77005 713-639-7300 South Carolina Columbia…

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Sift together 2 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, 2 heaping teaspoons baking powder, a tiny pinch of salt, and 2 tiny pinches of baking soda. Set aside. In a microwave-safe bowl or measuring cup, melt 1 stick of unsalted butter. Add 1 cup of milk, 1 large or extra-large egg, and 1 teaspoon vanilla paste…

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