Campaigners express concern at new Ofcom figures, which also show that half of under-13s are on social mediaA quarter of three- and four-year-olds in the UK now own a smartphone, while half of children under 13 are on social media, according to new data that comes as ministers consider banning all children under 16 from owning a mobile phone.The figures, from the communications regulator Ofcom, show high and rising rates of online activity by children of infant-school age, with 38% of five- to...
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The new book "The Breeding Birds of Minnesota" is the first comprehensive guide to the state's 250 species since the 1930s.
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For 18 years, Gerald "Fitz" Fitzpatrick traveled to war zones, building and fitting prosthetics for people maimed by land mines. His work for the International Committee of the Red Cross took him to Angola, Ethiopia, India, South Sudan, Myanmar and other countries. Before that, he had jobs in carpentry, restaurants and plumbing. He taught metalworking in the Peace Corps in Morocco and welded in shipyards. But he didn't expect to add fashion designer to his résumé. Now that's he's retired...
The Food and Drug Administration revealed last week that it had found traces of the bird flu virus in 20% of a nationally representative sample of commercially sold pasteurized milk. That announcement is the latest evidence that we are witnessing the uncontrolled spread of the highly pathogenic H5N1 disease. This month, bird flu, which has been found on dairy farms across nine states, was detected in a dairy worker in Texas. Dr. Barb Petersen, a dairy veterinarian in Amarillo who’d been caring...
Dr. Sanjay Gupta discusses the H5N1 avian influenza virus that is infecting
PROGRESO, TEXAS (ValleyCentral) — The FBI wants to know who collects a check from the city of Progreso. Armed with a subpoena, the FBI showed up at Progreso City Hall in January and requested payroll information for all city employees. “Pursuant to an investigation being conducted by FBI as to (a) possible federal violation, you []
As the virus continues its spread to new species, the World Health Organization fears it is moving closer to people
The stagflationary report on first-quarter gross domestic product from the Bureau of Economic Analysis got plenty of attention, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics recently dropped a bigger bombshell, and no one seemed to notice.
The exact timing of human evolution continues to evolve within the scientific community.