NPR #news: Wet socks can make a difference: Tips from readers on keeping cool without AC | https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/07/22/1188926588/wet-socks-can-make-a-difference-tips-from-readers-on-keeping-cool-without-ac

TV/Web #news : Drinking borax is the latest TikTok trend medical
authorities working feverishly to debunk |
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/drinking-borax-tiktok-trend-medical-authorities-debunk-rcna95526

Ukrainian forces hit an ammunition dump in Crimea, forcing an evacuation of the area and canceling train services, authorities in the annexed province say https://cnn.it/3Q8mG1Y

In 1987 the Montreal Protocol was adopted. This was the first of many protocols to save our planet from ourselves (Kyoto Protocol was to limit greenhouse gases and was not as successful).

Has it worked? Remember geologic time is incredibly slow, so breaking is a lot easier than fixing, but, yes. We actually may be repairing the damage (or rather we are not damaging it more).

“The hole is expected to completely heal by 2050.”

We have succeeded. It’s one thing. But it was important.

#Carlee Russell is lucky she survived. 😢

"All I asked from everyone right now is to be respectful of Carlee's situation. She was literally fighting for her life for 48 hours, so until she's physically and mentally stable again she is not able to give any updates or whereabouts on her kidnapper at this very moment," Simmons wrote

https://www.newsweek.com/carlee-russell-was-fighting-her-life-while-missing-boyfriend-says-1813261

Looking great for her age.

New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed

https://phys.org/news/2023-07-age-universe-billion-years-previously.html

💥💥While running the Boston Marathon in 2019, Jordan Marie Brings Three White Horses Daniel dedicated every mile in prayer to an Indigenous woman or girl who had been murdered.
Picture by Devin Whetstone

TV/Web #news : Firefighters are leaving the U.S. Forest Service for better
pay and benefits |
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/firefighters-are-leaving-us-forest-service-better-pay-benefits-rcna93689

Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in #Ukraine - 17 July 2023.

Find out more about Defence Intelligence's use of language: https://ow.ly/oV8s50PcxhJ

If this was actually what it looks like, I might develop an interest in soccer.....

A little bedtime reading...

https://www.amazon.com/Images-You-Should-Not-Masturbate/dp/0399536493?