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Smoke rises from the USS Bonhomme Richard after an explosion and fire on board the amphibious assault ship at Naval Base San Diego. The Navy is investigating whether the fire was due to arson.

Extreme heat, wildfire smoke harm low-income people and communities of color the most, study finds

The research, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, finds more hospitalizations for cardiovascular and respiratory problems in communities of color throughout California and where residents are disproportionately lower-income, live in denser neighborhoods and lack health insurance.

Rainbow Revolution

Join us and find your voice for a Pride Month celebration at the library! Rainbow Revolution features drag performances, panel discussions, and a resource fair, all centered around the theme of LGBTQ+ empowerment and visibility. This program is open to everyone and is a great opportunity to learn, connect, and celebrate diversity. Presented by the San Diego Public Library's LGBTQIA+ Library Services Committee and Youth & Family Services Find your voice and join us for the first annual Rainbow Revolution, a community resource fair in the Central Library Courtyard on June 17 from Noon-4 p.m.! Come and meet with organizations and businesses dedicated to supporting the LGBTQIA+ community in San Diego. Meet representatives from: San Diego Pride The San Diego LGBT Community Center: Youth Services The San Diego Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence San Diego Unified School District: Office of Youth Advocacy Trans Family Support Services Lambda Archives Rainbow Spaces PFLAG With beats provided by DJ Gabriel Rodriguez and pop-up drag performances by TJ Barr and CoCo Chanel! Plus, catch our Pride 2023 Library Card Contest Recognition Ceremony and two panel discussions in the adjacent Neil Morgan Auditorium: Pride 2023 Library Card Contest Winner Announcement - 1:30 p.m. New Science: LGBTQIA+ Perspectives in STEMM - 2 p.m. Local LGBTQIA+ Voices: An Author Panel - 3 p.m.

Your appendix is not, in fact, useless. This anatomy professor explains

A sudden appendectomy as a child made Heather Smith curious about what the appendix is for and why it gets inflamed. Now as an anatomy researcher, she's finding answers.

Keyser, West Virginia, is going through an energy transition as wind turbines are built around the traditional coal mining area.

This is what happens when a wind farm comes to a coal town

Keyser in West Virginia represents a national shift in American energy production. And in a town that was defined by coal for generations, change can be difficult.

Francesca Gino has been teaching at Harvard Business School for 13 years.

Harvard professor who studies dishonesty is accused of falsifying data

Francesca Gino, a prominent behavioral science professor at Harvard Business School, has been accused of fabricating data in studies than span over a decade, and most recently in 2020.

In structured literacy, students spend a lot of time learning how to break words down into bits of sound called phonemes.

A new way of teaching kids to read in Georgia

Georgia is changing the way students are taught to read. This year a new law requires schools to adopt what's known as Science of Reading and Structured Literacy.

A man cries as a body of his family member was found from a collapsed house caused by powerful earthquake in Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024.

Fears grow about saving people still trapped from Japan quake that has killed dozens

A series of powerful earthquakes that hit western Japan left at least 62 people dead Wednesday, as rescue workers fought to save those feared trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.

A cicada sheds its nymph shell in Chevy Chase, Md., during the emergence of Brood X in May 2021.

Billions of cicadas will buzz this spring as two broods emerge at the same time

Billions of cicadas will emerge this spring across eastern and southern states as two broods arrive simultaneously for the first time in more than 200 years.

The Science of Surfing exhibit opens at the California Surf Museum in Oceanside, May 1, 2023.<br/>

Oceanside's Surf Museum explores science of surfing

The new exhibit at the California Surf Museum demonstrates how waves are formed and forecasted and reveals the science behind the surfboard.

Zine and artist booths are shown from above, set up inside a medium-sized gallery space. Art is on the walls and visitors are looking at the booths and picking up zines. Vendors are seated and talking to the visitors. A DJ is in the center of the room.

Art, archive and community at the inaugural Oceanside Zine Fair

A new festival celebrates an accessible, enduring and analog form of art and archiving in Oceanside. Dozens of zinemakers, artists, musicians and vendors join the event at The Hill Street Country Club.

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