Geotags are causing overcrowding and disruption, we’re told – but if nature isn’t for everyone, who decides who it’s for?
Before we hike Mount Storm King, my wife, Kelsey, is met with a simple request: please don’t geotag your photos.
Kelsey learned about the trail from a work friend, who posted images on Instagram after reaching the summit alongside several hiking influencers. It’s the hiking influencers we’re warned not to upset, as best practice for them requires posting their photographs or videos with no geographic specificity,
'The worst version' of COVID is spreading. Can we update our vaccines in time?
For the last 18 months, the original COVID-19 vaccines — first as a two-dose series, then as boosters — have done an extraordinary job shielding us from illness, hospitalization and death. Globally, they saved nearly 20 million lives in 2021 alone. Even today, unvaccinated Americans are twice as likely as vaccinated Americans to test positive for COVID — and six times as likely to die from the disease.
But viruses evolve, and vaccines should too.
That was the big-picture takeaway from a pivotal meeting this week of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s expert advisory panel. The question before them was simple: Ahead of an expected winter surge, should vaccine manufacturers
Will targeting nicotine reduce smoking deaths?
“The 360” shows you diverse perspectives on the day’s top stories and debates.
What’s happening
The Food and Drug Administration last week announced a proposed rule that would force tobacco companies to dramatically reduce the amount of nicotine in their cigarettes, a step the agency said could save millions of lives by the end of the century.
Nicotine itself is not known to cause cancer, but it is a powerfully addictive substance that is viewed as the main driver of smoking habits that cause roughly 480,000 deaths in the United States each year, the agency said in a statement announcing the potential policy.
Two days later, the FDA also ordered Juul, one of
70 Cool Pumpkin Painting Ideas That Are So Cute (and Just a Little Bit Scary)
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70 Cool Pumpkin Painting Ideas That Are So Cute (and Just a Little Bit Scary)
It’s a tough call between which Halloween tradition inspires more creative brainstorming sessions: Deciding on your family Halloween costume or coming up with the perfect Jack-o’-Lantern design. Sure, you want to look spook-tactular come October 31, but you probably also want to impress trick-or-treaters with your pumpkin decorating skills. And if you want to wow the crowds without spending hours carving intricate designs, you’ll want to choose one of these pumpkin painting ideas.
That’s right: You can say goodbye to cumbersome carving tools and hello to paintbrushes and pens thanks to these no-carve pumpkin
Amazon could run out of workers in US in two years, internal memo suggests
With exceptionally high turnover, the company risks churning though available labor pool by 2024
Is Amazon about to run out of workers? According to a leaked internal memo, the retail logistics company fears so.
“If we continue business as usual, Amazon will deplete the available labor supply in the US network by 2024,” the research, first reported by Recode, stated.
'The emergency phase of COVID-19 is over': Doctors' group urges Biden administration to revise guidelines for children
WASHINGTON — A group of prominent doctors and educators has asked the Biden administration to lift pandemic-related measures that could be causing children to miss school and other activities.
“We strongly urge you to revise the CDC’s COVID-19 guidelines with regard to testing, isolation, and vaccine recommendations for children to ensure that public health policies are not doing more harm than good,” says a letter sent by Urgency of Normal — a group that has argued for a steady return to pre-pandemic behaviors — to Dr. Ashish Jha, director of the White House pandemic response team, and Rochelle Walensky, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The CDC’s COVID-19
Why is Starbucks’ union drive speeding ahead while Amazon’s stumbles?
More than 100 of the coffee shop’s locations have unionized, while just one Amazon warehouse has managed it
In a historic win in December, baristas in Buffalo voted to make their Starbucks the first of more than 9,000 corporate-operated Starbucks in the US to unionize. Since then, 143 other Starbucks have unionized and workers at 120 other locations have petitioned for union elections.
In another historic victory, a vote count on 1 April showed that workers at an 8,300-employee Amazon warehouse in Staten Island, New
COVID reinfections set to spike in U.S. as new variants evade immunity
If you’re anything like the majority of Americans — an estimated 60-plus-percent of them, according to government data — you’ve already had COVID-19.
And if you’re like most of those Americans, you had it fairly recently — during the enormous Omicron wave that engulfed the U.S. over the winter holidays.
The question now is whether you’re ready to get infected again — this time by a new subvariant that not only sidesteps some of your existing immunity but may also be more resistant to key treatments.
Two mutants matching that description, BA.4 and BA.5, are now taking off in the U.S. — and experts say they will soon outcompete the earlier versions
'Historic milestone': Vaccines for kids under 5 may come this month
WASHINGTON — Coronavirus vaccines could become available to children under the age of 5 within a matter of days, potentially offering relief to millions of parents who have been unable to inoculate their children since the vaccination effort began in late 2020.
“We have waited a long time for this moment,” Dr. Ashish Jha, who heads the White House pandemic response team, said during a Thursday press briefing. “We are on the cusp of having safe, highly effective vaccines for kids under 5.”
Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, at the daily press briefing on June 2. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
The vaccines still need to be approved by the
Monkeypox is 'out of the box' and has Europe on edge
BARCELONA — For decades now, experts believed monkeypox would simply stay put in Africa. This May, the zoonotic virus proved the fallacy of that idea, appearing in 23 countries — many of them in Europe —prompting the World Health Organization to declare Sunday that it was a “moderate” global public health risk.
“It’s an unusual situation,” Dr. Sylvie Briand, director of Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases Department at the WHO, said during a webinar on Monday. “Before, we had [monkeypox] only in certain countries. Now it’s out of the box.”
A 2003 electron microscope image shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions and immature, spherical virions obtained from a sample of human skin. (Cynthia
