Month: May 2022

Thursday, May 26, 2022: Epoch Sudoku Easy


SoCal Schools Work With Law Enforcement After Texas Shooting

Southern California schools worked May 25 with local law enforcement to increase campus security a day after an 18-year-old killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas. Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said shortly after the shooting—the second deadliest school shooting in the nation’s history—he would immediately increase deputies at schools…


Oklahoma Governor Signs Ban on Abortion From Conception, Now Nation’s Most Pro-Life Law

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law a measure that would ban abortion starting at conception, with few exceptions allowed. The measure, Oklahoma HB 4327, now becomes the strictest abortion restriction signed into law in the United States. It prohibits doctors from carrying out abortions after pregnancy. Exceptions include in the event that…


Oklahoma Governor Signs Ban on Abortion From Conception

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday signed into law a measure that would ban abortion starting at conception, with few exceptions allowed. The measure, Oklahoma HB 4327, now becomes the strictest abortion restriction signed into law in the United States. It prohibits doctors from carrying out abortions after pregnancy. Exceptions include in the event that…


Open up the Climate Change Debate to Include Alternative Views

Ever since Prof. Wallace Broecker put the term “global warming” into the public domain, the climate change debate has gotten hotter and hotter. I am a migrant Australian in my late 50s, currently settled in Brisbane after living and working in a few different countries. I have always believed and followed climate change science that…


Jack Dorsey Steps Down from Twitter Board

Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey has reportedly stepped down effective immediately from his seat on the social media platform’s board after a stakeholder meeting on Wednesday. The move was expected after Twitter “shared back in November” that Dorsey would leave the board when his term expired at the 2022 meeting of stockholders, a Twitter spokesperson…


Nobel Laureate, UCI Alumnus on What It’s Like to Win the Prize

IRVINE, Calif.—The 2021 Chemistry Nobel Prize winner and University of California–Irvine alumnus David MacMillan has a lot to say about what it was like to win. His story—coupled with his massively successful research—made for an evening of riveting recollections laced with laughter and happy tears as he took the stage May 24 at UC Irvine’s…


Doorway on Mars

The Red Planet never fails to surprise us: first there was a pyramid, then there was a mystery woman, and then a smiley face. Now we have a doorway to an ancient temple. Of course, experts will say all these are only illusions. NASA’s Curiosity Rover took the picture of a “natural rock formation” in…


Is Health Insurance the Next Real Estate in Terms of Investment?

By Justin Brock Appreciating assets, renewal income, and capital gains tax rates are all hot topics in the investment and entrepreneur space, but most people’s explorations of where to invest to capitalize on them are tired. One wildly undersung option is in the health insurance and associated Medicare sectors, which are on fire because of a…


Tory Leadership French Debate Reflects Vitriolic Turn of Race

Commentary The Conservative Party of Canada’s (CPC) French leadership debate in Laval, Que., was better than the odd spectacle in Edmonton when the use of trombone sound effects and paddles as props made more news than the views of the candidates. The debate was not dominated by shouting and fireworks as was the Ottawa debate…