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2:00PM Water Cooler 8/23/2024

~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Kennedy live briefing at 2:00PM ET; This week's RCP polling averages (neck and neck); New Covid charts (no improvements); The toll of scientific lies ~

2024-08-23 18:00

Slog AM: Harris Accepts Democratic Presidential Nomination, Rick Steves Has Cancer, Help Find These Lost Birds

The Stranger's morning news roundup. by Nathalie Graham Cancer comes for us all: Even for Edmonds' own prolific travel writer, Rick Steves. Steves, who I am going to dub "the gem of Edmonds," was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. Luckily, he …

2024-08-23 15:50

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/22/2024

~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, syndemics ~

2024-08-22 18:00

FDA authorizes at-home syphilis test

The at-home test can inform people of current and past infections but positive tests should still be taken to a healthcare provider for additional testing.

2024-08-21 18:36

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/21/2024

~ Today's Water Cooler: Politics, pandemics ~

2024-08-21 18:00

The DNC roll call featured a musical salute to each state. Here's what your state chose

Special tracks for each state and territory were played during Tuesday night's DNC roll call. But what song repped your state? We found them all so you don't have to.

2024-08-21 04:06

2:00PM Water Cooler 8/20/2024

Today's Water Cooler: Politics, Syndemics; Democrat National Convention vignettes; Highest Covid wave in two years; Stupid money and blood money

2024-08-20 18:00

USL Super League opens a new chapter in US women's soccer history

This past weekend a new D1 women’s league launched in the United States. After years of planning, the USL Super League played its first set of matches. All three games featured sold-out stadiums thus showing the penetration the Super League has already made i…

2024-08-19 22:29

A Brief History of Leaf-Peeping

From Henry David Thoreau's 'Autumnal Tints' to the origins of the term 'leaf-peeper.'

2024-08-19 22:06

Lazy linking

A few interesting reads on the internet Pro-Trump defamation attorney Lin Wood must pay former law partners $4.5 million after defaming them as ‘criminal’ extortionists on social media This sounds like it started out with normal stuff happening when a company…

2024-08-18 16:50