F. Dill

I'm a chemist and educator. I've done work in cancer research and environmental monitoring. I've lived on three continents but call Florida home.

F. Dill
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Uttar Pradesh
The bloated, decaying bodies of COVID victims are washing up on the banks of India's Ganges River
yahoo.com - Cheryl Teh
Dozens of decaying corpses are washing up on the banks of India's Ganges River. The local authorities believe these are the corpses of COVID dead from …
1 day ago
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Israel
Israel to ramp up deadly airstrikes on Gaza as rockets rain down and deaths mount on both sides
CBS News
Israel's armed forces and Palestinian militants exchanged rocket fire on Tuesday as days of fighting centered around one of the holiest sites in the …
10 hours ago
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Crustaceans
Fantastical Jurassic Fossil Shows Crustacean Eaten by Squid Eaten by Shark
ScienceAlert - Carly Cassella
Sometime in the early Jurassic, an ancient squid-like creature speared a yummy lobster-like crustacean with its many hooked tentacles. Just as it …
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United States
CDC Approves At-Home COVID Tests for International Travel
AFAR Media - Michelle Baran
A $25 COVID-19 home kit will satisfy the CDC's testing requirement for international arrivals. Traveling to the United States from abroad, or …
8 hours ago
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U.S. Central Command
The End Of Iraq's F-16 Fleet Is A Real Possibility As Lockheed Contractors Prepare To Leave
The Drive - Thomas Newdick
Without U.S. technicians, the fall from grace of the Iraqi Air Force’s Viper fleet could be complete. The troubled saga of the Iraqi Air Force’s …
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United States
‘Teaching the truth’: Tennessee educators respond to proposed limits on teaching about racism
chalkbeat.org - Cathryn Stout
History education has been in the spotlight this year, from parents and students demanding more diverse content to legislators in some states banning …
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Productivity
Get Paid To Nap? Dream Job Will Pay You $1500 To Take A Nap Every Day For 30 Days
wealthgang.com - Brandon Carlisle
Sleeping on the job is frowned upon in most lines of work, but what if you could get paid to nap?Now you can, thanks to a job looking for …
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U.S. Politics
Man who claimed 'Foxitis' prompted him to rush Capitol says he believed 'America was being robbed of a president'
CNN - By Paul LeBlanc
Washington (CNN) — A US Capitol riot defendant whose lawyer says he was hooked on Fox News and developed "Foxitis" said Monday evening that he had "believed that America was being robbed of a President"...
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Gaza
Israel, Hamas trade deadly fire as confrontation escalates
Associated Press - By FARES AKRAM and JOSEF FEDERMAN
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A confrontation between Israel and Hamas sparked by weeks of tensions in contested Jerusalem escalated Tuesday as Israel unleashed new airstrikes on Gaza while militants barraged...
10 hours ago
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Fossils
'Living Fossil' Thought Extinct For 273 Million Years Found Thriving on Ocean Floor
ScienceAlert - Michelle Starr
A symbiotic relationship between two marine lifeforms has just been discovered thriving at the bottom of the ocean, after disappearing from the …
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FDA
FDA permits use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine in kids ages 12 to 15
CNBC - Berkeley Lovelace Jr.
The White House's chief medical advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said in April that the U.S. could begin vaccinating older kids against Covid-19 by the …
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Texas
Study links school reopening and COVID spread in Texas
chalkbeat.org - Matt Barnum
It’s been one of the most politically fraught and scientifically complex questions of the pandemic: do open school buildings contribute to the spread …
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