DALE: “People want to know what it was like. We all know it’s been going on for years and that we love watching the world juniors at Christmas. It’s almost part of the holiday now. New and worrying limits to the efficacy of this vaccine have surfaced over the weekend after it was found nearly ineffective against a new variant of the virus that has come to be known as the South Africa variant. This variant originated in South Africa or at the least was first identified in South Africa and travelled to Britain besides several other countries. And now, it has been found in communities in Britain not linked to travel from South Africa..

“It put together all the sciences that I’d always loved,” he said. “It was all there and I never realized that until graduate school.”Scientists have long used tree rings as a proxy for historical records of temperature, precipitation, fire, hurricanes and even volcanic activity. But with its relatively sparse tree canopy on the native prairies and extensive logging of forests in the late 1800s, the Driftless region has been something of a mystery..

Synthetic, plastic based materials are not biodegradable, and in the absence of fabric recycling centers, these garments will clog up our landfills and oceans for centuries. Cotton, on the other hand, will eventually decompose, but it is also a resource intensive crop. Even if you use organic cotton, which means not using pesticides, the crop still requires a lot of water.

Right now, Decatur Morgan Hospital is wrapping up its supply of Moderna vaccines on second dose patients. Starting today, first dose patients will receive the Pfizer vaccine because the hospital received a shipment of 2,925 doses from them. Whichever shot you got for your first dose, you’ll get the same for your second..

The police chief of Troy, David Ellis, travels to attend this event that the president promises will be “wild.” Trump urges rally attendees to march on the Capitol building, and an armed, violent insurrection ensues. Democratic state Rep. Rosemarie Rung later calls out Ellis on Twitter for not acting to stop the attack and for standing by while other police officers were being injured.

Terms like “QLED” and “OLED” and “ULED” are infiltrating the 4K TV space. But are they really that much better than your current 4K plain LED TV? This deal on a 75 inch ULED model from Hisense is your way to test it out without spending too much. No dull scenes here: The one job of a quantum dot is to emit color and they do it ferociously.