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Home health care workers in Nevada are lobbying the state legislature to raise caregivers' minimum wage from $16 to $20 an hour.

"For Dear Life" opens at Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, featuring American art about disability, medicine and health from the 1960s until the onset of COVID-19. For co-curator Jill Dawsey, this one is personal.

Saturday marks the shortest day of the year and the official start of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. NPR has compiled plenty of expert tips for celebrating the solstice and weathering winter.

In northern California, a group of volunteers spend every night from late fall through winter as crossing guards–escorting migrating salamanders across a rural road.

La Jolla Playhouse’s Innovation Night is San Diego’s premier networking event for the arts and sciences industries. An elegant cocktail reception for 500+ C-level executives, innovators, and guests with delicious cuisine and an open bar. Plus, an Innovation Night gallery featuring interactive exhibits from leading San Diego companies and delightful Without Walls-inspired theatre to enjoy. For more information visit: lajollaplayhouse.org Stay Connected on Facebook and Instagram

Do you like fantasy role-playing games, books, or movies? What about dressing up in costume or cosplay? Would you like to contribute to science and preserve and protect species? Join IF/THEN Ambassdors, Cosplay for Science, the LA Zoo, the CESAP apprentices, and crew from Forever Balboa Park for this pop-up event! Don’t forget to bring your water and your costume for some great adventuring! Friday, July 26, 2024 from Noon - 4 p.m. at Zoro Garden next to The Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park Visit: https://www.ecologikinstitute.org/events/dungeons-and-dragons-bioblitz-2024

Exposure to heat can alter the way your DNA works, according to a new study. The effects could lead to long-term health outcomes.

A GOP electoral warning points to Elon Musk in the hot seat, and President Trump employed a third-term distraction. Also, a trade war rages, and there were mass firings at key scientific agencies.

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of "The Tipping Point" in a startling and revealing light. Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering through a series of riveting stories in his latest work, Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Supereaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, Gladwell offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of the modern world. In this provocative new work, he returns to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. Visit: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0A006118ADEC4356 Malcom Gladwell on Instagram and Facebook

It's the second tech company to agree to a payout after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol prompted Trump to be kicked off numerous social media platforms.