(KGB Report will return on Monday, July 12.)
Job openings in restaurants and hotels were slightly higher in May while the number of people quitting jobs in those places also inched up, to just over 700,000. Overall, 3.6 million people quit their jobs in May. That's down from a record four million in April but still a high level of turnover.
There's a shortage of patio furniture. Really.
Earth may not be in any danger from asteroids. Chinese researchers to use rockets to deflect them. At China's National Space Science Center, researchers found in simulations that 23 Long March 5 rockets hitting simultaneously could deflect a large asteroid from its original path by a distance 1.4 times the Earth's radius.
17 tips to live comfortably off just a Social Security check. These articles are written by kids in their 20s who don't fully appreciate the potential effects of what they're suggesting. One's perspective is a bit different when you reach the age that classic radio stations start playing "oldies" first released when your kids were in high school.
New UC Berkeley study suggests cell phones sharply increase tumor risk. Researchers took a comprehensive look at statistical findings from 46 different studies around the globe and found that the use of a cell phone for more than 1,000 hours, or about 17 minutes a day over a ten year period, increased the risk of tumors by 60 percent.
Pandemic Potpourri:
Moderna starts human trials of an mRNA-based flu shot. Moderna says it hopes to eventually create combination vaccines that could protect people against flu, COVID-19, and other respiratory infections with one shot.
About 160 Covid-19 infections are linked to a Texas church youth camp- including cases of the Delta variant. Of the roughly 160 people infected, six (about 3.7%) had been vaccinated.
COVID and the brain: researchers zero in on how damage occurs.COVID and the brain: researchers zero in on how damage occurs. Also: Fitbit data points to lingering physical changes for some Covid-19 sufferers. On average, it took 79 days for the elevated resting heart rate of people with covid-19 symptoms to drop back to normal, the study found.
Delta variant slams Missouri as ICUs fill and ventilators run low. This should probably be in the "Crazytown" section. As Alex Haley said, "Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you." (More reality quotes)
Amid uptick in cases, Oklahoma sees high hospital admission rate for COVID-19 patients. Across the state, nearly 28% of people who have had a positive COVID-19 test in the last two weeks were admitted to hospital...
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From Crazytown:
Trump sues Twitter, Facebook, Google and CEOs Dorsey, Zuckerberg, Pichai. The three related lawsuits, filed in federal court in Florida, allege the tech giants have violated plaintiffs' First Amendments rights. Of course, if Trump or his lawyers had actually read the Constitution, he'd know the First Amendment only addresses the government infringing upon speech, not social networks whose user agreements you violated by inciting an insurrection. Anyway, he's using it as another fundraising ploy.
Ivanka Trump is probably next on the chopping block: former federal prosecutor. Experts say the Manhattan District Attorney's Office is likely looking into "consulting fees" paid to Ivanka despite her having been a full-time employee of the Trump Organization.
"Fleet of 10 UFOs" spotted hovering near International Space Station on NASA live stream.
Book says Trump praised Hitler during same trip that he disparaged U.S. war dead.
Giuliani's law license in Washington suspended.
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KGB's daily agglomeration of stuff I find interesting:
Among other things, today is
- Be a Kid Again Day
- Math 2.0 Day
- National Freezer Pop Day
- National Ice Cream Sundae Day
- National Milk Chocolate with Almonds Day
- SCUD Day
On this date:
- 1776 - Church bells (possibly including the Liberty Bell) were rung after John Nixon delivered the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence of the United States
- 1797 - Senator William Blount of Tennessee was expelled by the Senate and became the first US federal official to face impeachment.
- 1889 - The first issue of The Wall Street Journal was published.
- 1889 - John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds in the last championship bare-knuckle boxing match.
- 1932 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
- 1994 - Kim Jong-il began to assume supreme leadership of North Korea upon the death of his father, Kim Il-sung.
- 2011 - Space Shuttle Atlantis was launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
Birthdays
- 1838 - Eli Lilly, American soldier, chemist, and businessman, founded Eli Lilly and Company (d. 1898)
- 1838 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Airship Company (d. 1917)
- 1839 - John D. Rockefeller, American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Standard Oil Company(d. 1937)
- 1908 - Nelson Rockefeller, American businessman and politician, 41st Vice President of the United States (d. 1979)
- 1914 - Billy Eckstine, American singer and trumpet player (d. 1993)
- 1926 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-American psychiatrist and author (d. 2004)
- 1930 - Jerry Vale, American singer (d. 2014)
- 1934 - Marty Feldman,English actor and screenwriter (d. 1982) (Video)
- 1935 - Steve Lawrence, American actor and singer
- 1944 - Jeffrey Tambor, American actor and singer
- 1947 - Kim Darby, American actress (Video)
- 1949 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-American chef, restaurateur and entrepreneur
- 1951 - Anjelica Huston, American actress and director
- 1952 - Jack Lambert, American football player and sportscaster
- 1958 - Kevin Bacon, American actor and musician (Video)
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Miscellany
Wanna delay aging? Get castrated, scientists say. "It's not an ideal solution." Ya think?
Beating a literally dead horse: 'Night of the Animated Dead' to adapt zombie classic. I maintain George Romero's original 1968 classic is the only zombie movie you need to see. Everything else is egregiously derivative.
Grasshoppers invade western US in largest swarms in 35 years, plaguing farmers and ranchers.
12-foot python escapes inside Louisiana's largest mall.
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