The Washington Post Magazine's Patricia McCormick tracked down the whereabouts of Mary Ann Vecchio known by almost everyone as the "Kent State girl" from what I would rate as one of the most famous photos of the last 100 years.
McCormick does a deft, but thorough job of talking to Vecchio about her life since that day, how it was affected by the incident, and some of the backstory behind that day with some surprising pieces of info that Vecchio discusses concerning the immediate aftermath after she was returned to Florida.
Read the article to find out what I mean.
The Atlantic asks the question of what if a single vaccine could cure all of Covid-19 and all its variants for 100 years?
The first step would be a universal vaccine to eliminate Covid and the variants with the second phase developing a vaccine that would check future coronaviruses of all types.
The Atlantic argues that such an achievement would be a generational achievement, yet one that could be closer than you may think.
The key is finding a common protein in the SARS virus and find a way to recognize a common portion (most likely the stem of the virus) that all forms of the virus carries and would inhibit the developments of common variants, therefore stemming the tide of the wave of variant viruses.
It makes sense to take things seriously and put the time in to develop attacks before they arise, but I am more likely to believe that these types of developmental processes will be given enough to work on a problem, but not enough to truly make a dent.
Humankind celebrates immediate triumph and moves on to the next battle rather than being proactive and avoiding a future one.
The Bulletin takes a reasonable and scientific look at the origin of Covid and the question of did it escape from the infamous Wuhan China lab or was there a deliberate release by the Chinese?
The article discusses both theories and then offers which is the more likely scenario.
It's a pretty deep read, but a very interesting one.
Hakai Magazine writes of the unlikely success of fish sticks, those rectangle-shaped pieces of fish that most of us thrived on as kids as quick dining in school lunches, tv dinners, and as fast food in various packaging.
The article writes of the process of making fish sticks, which hasn't really changed since they began to show up in your grocer's freezer with their surprising start as "fish bricks".
Fish bricks were sold in the shape and style of a gallon of ice cream with the idea that you would cut off what you served that evening and then put the remaining brick into the freezer.
If that doesn't make you wonder, read the article and see what you think about how they are formed today!!
Through the years in the inbox, I've found notes on different oddball colors of lobsters, but I've never seen one such as this- the calico.
This calico lobster almost found its way to a plate, as workers at a Virginia Red Lobster found this guy
(?) during an April seafood delivery to the restaurant in Manassas Virginia.
The speckled orange and black lobster is the third rarest lobster in the world behind the split-colored and albino versions and the chances of catching one in one in thirty million.
The calico's color would make it an easier target for predators in the wild due to its brighter coloring.
"Freckles" will be living its life at the Virginia Living Museum in Newport News Virginia
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