Joe McKinley Updated: Mar. 06, 2020 It is possible to make yourself “disappear” from the Internet, says Porch.com security expert Robert Siciliano. But, he warns in an informative post, there isn’t an undo option for many of these tactics. But if you are sure that you want to stop the Googles and Facebooks of the world from knowing everything…
Read More How to Delete 99 Percent of Your Digital FootprintBy Sarra Sedghi The grocery store rotisserie chicken is queen in terms of convenience. The cooked bird is cheaper than a whole raw chicken and elevates the simplest meals. Most importantly, it gets the job done. Maybe it’ll feed your family. Maybe you’ll eat the entire thing yourself, sans silverware, over a period of days. Either…
Read More We Tried Rotisserie Chickens From 6 Grocery Stores—Here’s Our FavoriteBy Iman Ghosh The American population is a unique mosaic of cultures—and almost 40% of people identify as racial or ethnic minorities today. In this treemap, we use data for 2019 from the Kaiser Family Foundation, which bases its analysis on the latest American Community Survey (ACS) data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Then we break down the same…
Read More Visualizing the U.S. Population by RaceWhat is sedition? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, sedition is “language or behaviour that is intended to persuade other people to oppose their government”. While Donald Trump currently heads the US administration, his leadership will not last much longer. When Mr Trump is no longer in office, any sign of encouraging his supporters to oppose…
Read More Has the President Committed Treason?No amount of rationalizing can change the fact that the majority of the Republican Party is advocating for the overthrow of an American election. JANUARY 4, 2021 Tom Nichols Author of Our Own Worst Enemy “We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote in the opening of his 1962 novel, Mother Night, “and so we must be…
Read More Worse Than TreasonBy Sopan Deb and Kevin Draper Jan. 6, 2021, 6:34 p.m. ET W.N.B.A. Commissioner Cathy Engelbert told CNN over the summer that she would not force Loeffler to sell her stake, even though the league’s players’ union has indicated it does not want her to own the team any longer. Loeffler has said repeatedly that she is unwilling to sell…
Read More Kelly Loeffler Is Done in the Senate. But What About in the W.N.B.A.?By Gillian Brockell Jan. 2, 2021 at 7:00 a.m. EST Mahogany boxes containing sealed envelopes with each state’s electoral college vote are marched into a joint session of Congress. The presiding officer opens the envelopes in alphabetical order, and House and Senate “tellers” read the results aloud. It is generally so boring that few lawmakers…
Read More ‘Grace and humor’: The vice presidents who certified their own election lossesby Dana Givens Dr. Kizzmekia S. Corbett, a viral immunologist working with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is taking the lead to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus. She is the scientific lead for Dr. Barney Graham’s coronavirus team based in Seattle. Read HERE.
Read More MEET THE BLACK WOMAN TAKING THE LEAD TO DEVELOP A VACCINE FOR COVID-19The holidays are here, and among the many treats of the season are chocolate and hot cocoa. While these traditions provide a hefty dose of sugar, there’s a bittersweet side to chocolate’s history, too. This year, at Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, a plantation museum where, as a historian, I work as the director of…
Read More Oppression in the kitchen, delight in the dining room: The story of Caesar, an enslaved chef and chocolatier in Colonial VirginiaI clean my fridge regularly, because, in my house, I’m the only one who eats leftovers. I also check out all of those half-empty jars of condiments. I find those packets from the Chinese food place, catsup from fast food, cheese from Italian take out, and bottles/jars of mayo, mustard, relish, chili sauce, BBQ sauce,…
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