Author: KnowledgeHippo
How common is it?In the United States, there are an average of seven human cases per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Over 80 percent of these cases are the inguinal form of the disease.The disease is most common in rural, western areas, especially parts of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Oregon. In these places, the bacteria can circulate in prairie dogs, squirrels, chipmunks, wood rats and other animals.Globally, 1,000 to 2,000 cases are reported each year, according to the CDCHow do cats get plague?Cats can become infected when they ingest infected rodents or…
In 1958, when Mary Pat Laffey Inman became a flight attendant — as they were called — for Northwest Airlines, she was 20 years old and the clock was already ticking. At 32 she would be forced to retire. That is, if she didn’t get married, get pregnant, or even gain too much weight before that: Everything was grounds for termination. It was the golden age of aviation for everyone, except perhaps the women who served in-flight meals to the well-dressed passengers.Six years later, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex,…
Palestinian representatives argued at the United Nations’ top court on Monday that Israel’s decades-long occupation violated international law and presented Palestinians with a choice between “displacement, submission or death.”The arguments kicked off six days of hearings at the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the legality of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories that began in 1967, including East Jerusalem and the West Bank. The proceedings, planned months before the Gaza war began on October 7, have taken on added urgency amid this conflict, the deadliest Israeli-Palestinian war.The tribunal is scheduled to hear representatives from more than 50 nations,…
Schools across the country have faced no shortage of challenges from the pandemic. Students fall behind academically. There have been cases of misconduct. Students are absent much more often than before.But there’s another problem that has left some school districts scrambling. Teachers are also missing more school.Teachers typically receive paid sick days and a small number of personal days. During the 2022-2023 school year in New York, nearly one in five public school teachers were absent 11 days or more, an increase from the previous year and before the pandemic. In Michigan, about 15 percent of teachers were absent each…
In December 2022, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, a key maker of the world’s most cutting-edge chips, said it planned to spend $40 billion in Arizona on its first major U.S. semiconductor manufacturing hub.The much-discussed project outside Phoenix — featuring two new factories, including one with more advanced technology — has become a symbol of President Biden’s push to boost domestic production of chips, the bits of silicon that help all kinds of devices do calculations and store data. .Then last summer, TSMC pushed back initial production at its first plant in Arizona to 2025 from this year, saying local workers…
It started with mild anxiety.Emily, who asked to be identified only by her first name because she was discussing her mental health, had just moved to New York after graduate school to start a marketing job at a large law firm.She knew it was normal to feel a little anxious. But she wasn’t prepared for what came next: chronic insomnia.Operating on only three or four hours of sleep, it didn’t take long for her anxiety to mount: At 25, she was “terribly nervous all the time. A shipwreck.”When a lawyer in her office yelled at her one day, she experienced…
A spate of gruesome killings of women in several African countries in recent weeks has sparked outrage and outrage, sparked a wave of protests and accelerated calls for governments to take decisive action against gender-based violence.Kenyans were shocked when 31 women were murdered in January after being beaten, strangled or beheaded, activists and police said. In Somalia, a pregnant woman died this month after her husband allegedly set her on fire. In the West African country of Cameroon, a powerful businessman was arrested in January charges, which he has denied, of raping dozens of women.The spike in killings is part…
Sam Betsko quickly realized that being an aide in a college dorm would require more than helping locked-out students and begging sophomores to turn down the music, for the love of God.In her role at Boston University, there were days of compulsory, unpaid training and the specter of arbitrary discipline from bosses. He had to prepare to respond to emergencies such as a student’s anxiety attack or sexual assault. Then she learned that some resident assistants had been assigned to work much longer than others—for no extra compensation—at a gig that offered nothing more than housing, a meal plan, tickets…
The sleepy United States box office finally lifted its eyelids over the holiday weekend. “Bob Marley: One Love,” a feel-good musical biopic, was on track to earn $33.2 million Friday through Monday, for a strong total of about $51 million from its opening day Valentine’s Day, according to Paramount Pictures.”Excuse me while I light my spliff,” read a celebratory post on the official X account of Marley, who died in 1981.“One Love,” which cost about $70 million to produce, landed in what has emerged over the past year as a box office sweet spot — stories that feel both nostalgic…
A year ago on Valentine’s Day, I said goodnight to my wife, went to my office to answer some emails, and accidentally had the weirdest first date of my life.The date was a two-hour chat with Sydney, the AI alter ego behind Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which I had been assigned to test. I had planned to pepper the chatbot with questions about its capabilities, exploring the limits of its AI engine (which we now know was an early version of OpenAI’s GPT-4), and writing up my findings.But the conversation took a strange turn – with Sydney engaging in Jungian…