GAINESVILLE, Fla.—After 24 years of teaching advanced math, Will Frazer calculated how the COVID-19 plan would affect students during the 2020-2021 school year and cringed. Though Florida was one of the least-restrictive states in the country when it came to COVID-19 measures, he couldn’t compute how remote viewing of classes from home could further learning….
Mask Restrictions Didn’t Add Up, So Teacher Quit For the Good of His Math Champions
Florida Sheriff Urges Homeowners to Shoot Invaders to ‘Save the Taxpayers Money’
A Florida sheriff said that he’s urging homeowners to get gun safety training while encouraging them to shoot home invaders to “save the taxpayers money.” “If somebody’s breaking into your house, you’re more than welcome to shoot them in Santa Rosa County. We prefer that you do actually,” Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson told…
COVID Vaccine Injury Reporting: ‘Logic and Ethics Out the Window,’ BC Doctor Laments
Canada’s health-care system is not properly tracking COVID vaccine injuries, a B.C. family doctor says, and he is discouraged because his efforts to report and investigate the side effects seen in his patients have been ignored, he says. Dr. Charles Hoffe, based in Lytton, a village 260 km northeast of Vancouver, garnered publicity after he…
Gardening a Growing Trend in Canada: Survey
Gardening is gaining popularity in Canada amid rising food prices, according to a recent survey. The survey, done by Angus Reid and Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab, found that 52 percent of Canadians are already growing food at home, up one percent from 2020. Of these, 9 percent started gardening after the pandemic began. Although…
UK’s ‘Self-Lacerating Classes’ Should Be More Confident: Australian Diplomat
Britain should be more confident and stop “self-lacerating”, the outgoing Australian High Commissioner has said. George Brandis, who has been Australia’s representative in London since 2018, said the UK was much more highly respected around the world than many in Britain realised. He told an event hosted by the British Foreign Policy Group think tank…
Cryptocurrency’s Ability to Hedge Against Inflation
Two topics in the financial world are dominating the headlines right now: inflation and cryptocurrency. Inflation has been rising steadily, reaching a 40-year high last month; and crypto, whether you invest in it, loathe it, or pay it no mind, is irrefutably here to stay. Crypto, the new kid on the block, has attracted much attention…
Another High-tech Titan Falters
Commentary You’ve probably heard of the high-flying Big Tech FAANG stocks—Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google. Among the five of them, their market cap reached $6 trillion last year, which is more than the GDP of all but a small handful of entire countries. Moreover, their net worth is larger than the entire annual output…
The 5-hour Rule Used by Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Jack Ma
By John Rampton You just walked in the door from an exhausting day at work. You’re hungry and spent, just wanting to catch your breath for a minute. You grab something to eat and then veg out in front of the TV. The next thing you know, you’ve just binge-watched five episodes of the latest Netflix…
Grief and Love: How to Cope When You Know a Loved One Is Going to Die
Recently, a dear friend whose husband had died a few months prior said she had difficulty attending church because at some point during the service, her tears would overflow. She and her husband had always attended church together, and she was finding the sadness of sitting alone to be overwhelming. Her grief was completely understandable;…
Kremlin: Danger of Nuclear War ‘Serious, Real’
The Kremlin criticized the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) for engaging in a proxy war with Russia through Ukraine. “If NATO essentially engages in war with Russia through a proxy and is arming that proxy, war means war,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in a wide-ranging interview broadcast on Russian state television on Monday….
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