New air monitor detects COVID-19 variants in 5 minutes | CIDRAP

“If you are in a room with 100 people, you don’t want to find out five days later whether you could be sick or not. The idea with this device is that you can know essentially in real time, or every 5 minutes, if there is a live virus,” said co-senior author John Cirrito, PhD. Source: New air monitor detects COVID-19 variants in 5 minutes | CIDRAP

The Copyright Expires: The Original Mickey Mouse is Entering the Public Domain in 2024 ~ Vintage Everyday

To be clear, it’s only the version of Mickey Mouse from Steamboat Willie that anyone in the public can use without permission to create new stories and new art. That Mickey Mouse has a long rat-like black nose, basic oval eyes with no pupils and a long, spindly, curvy black tail. Source: The Copyright Expires: The Original Mickey Mouse is Entering the Public Domain in 2024 ~ Vintage Everyday

Reid Friedson: DeSantis Is a Homegrown Fascist

Diane Ravitch's blog

The Republican primary is shaping up as a carnival of horrible. Coasting in the lead is former President Donald Trump, whose ignorance, lying, and braggadocio are well-documented and on display whenever he speaks. His indictments tend to increase his poll numbers, and apparently are no bar to bring re-elected.

In the second spot, far ahead of the rest of the pack is Ron DeSantis, who wants to be known as the meanest one in the race. He will boast about how he crushed academic freedom, how he outlawed drag queens and demonized gays, how he made honest teaching of history illegal, how he encouraged book banning.

In this article, Reid Friedson contends that DeSantis’s full-blown fascism should disqualify him from office. But if the public wants fascism, there he stands, ready to suppress and criminalize dissent, debate, anyone who offends him.

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