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.…
Read More Webb Space TelescopeThis 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…
Read More Disco Demolition NightSift 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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Read More Book Series (Sheroes/heroes) I’ve EnjoyedJuly 2, 2022 by Scott Bomboy Officially, the Continental Congress declared its freedom from Great Britain on July 2, 1776, when it voted to approve a resolution submitted by delegate Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, declaring “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved…
Read More When is the real Independence Day: July 2 or July 4?“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer – a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim.“ Frederick Douglass Every year on this day I make an assessment, from my own perspective, of how much…
Read More 4th of July thoughtsIngredients 3/4 cup water 2/3 cup white wine or cider vinegar 2 teaspoons sugar 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1 medium red onion, thinly sliced pickling spice or black peppercorns Directions 1. In a bowl, whisk together the first four ingredients until sugar and salt dissolve. Place onions and optional ingredients, if desired, into large glass jar;…
Read More Pickled Red OnionsBy Jess Novak June 24, 2022 For snacks, consider three components, says Lauren Harris-Pincus, MS, RDN, author of The Everything Easy Pre-Diabetes Cookbook: combining healthy carbohydrates like fruits, vegetables, or whole grains with a lean protein and a good-for-you fat. “This combination helps your food absorb much more slowly so your blood sugar rises less quickly,…
Read More 10 Delicious, Healthy Snacks That Balance Your Blood SugarKelsey Mulvey Every type of food has a different shelf life; plus, those expiration dates are no longer valid. Note that it’s safe to eat food with freezer burn, but it will have a dry and unpleasant texture.
Read More Here’s How Long Food Lasts After You Pull It Out of the FreezerProtecting election integrity in 2024 “Ideally, our formal institutions of election protection will work unimpeded and uncorrupted, and the administration of U.S. elections will proceed in a nonpartisan manner. But it is not enough to ask Americans to vote and to hope their votes will be counted,” argues Vanessa Williamson. (More)
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