Whatever Happened to the Climate Crisis?Back in early February — can you remember that far back? — the climate crisis was drawing public (and mainstream media) attention, and environmental activists were planning for the 50th Earth Day celebration scheduled for April 22. Then came COVID-19, and the global pandemic took up all the oxygen in […]
Lunar Notes is about the Moon and the impact the phases of the Moon have on your daily life, your daily routine. These days there is no daily routine. We are in stasis. This pandemic is huge, global and life-changing. It takes more than the Moon’s daily movement to change your life. For this month’s forecast, we […]
Restaurants contribute $3 trillion to the US economy each year. More locally, Rhode Islanders are proud to point to local restaurants as not only a major contributor to our culture, but also to the state economy. The RI restaurant industry generates some $2.7 billion in annual sales, and employs nearly 60,000 people, according to the […]
Most ice cream shops hibernate over the winter — even before COVID-19 set out to destroy the planet. But The Wright Scoop has not only persisted throughout this slow season, it has thrived, drawing in a large and enthusiastic following. The secret? The “Test Batch Club,” an exclusive membership club they launched in January 2020, […]
RI Gov. Gina Raimondo at her press conference on Saturday, May 2, displayed a chart showing new hospitalizations per day from March 13 to April 26. The point of the chart, the governor claimed, was to illustrate discontinuities on April 1, “Two weeks after first closures,” and April 13, “Two weeks after stay at home […]
Had it been possible to contain COVID-19 in any reasonable manner, this illness would have attracted no more attention than the seasonal flu. For most of us, the symptoms are not that menacing; only 20% of the population is vulnerable to the more serious and often fatal effects. On Facebook, one can find multiple posts […]
There is no shortage of books about diseases through human history, but a few have become definitive classics. I’ve curated an admittedly highly opinionated selection of the best. Some books that arguably would have qualified have been left off simply because they are too old, and medicine changes so rapidly that it could be misleading […]
Last month, the CDC revised its guidelines on face masks, encouraging people to wear some kind of face covering, and overnight, face masks became a fixture of our coronavirus world. But with mass shortages in stores and online retailers, how are people supposed to get the PPE they need? Enter Project Mask RI. They’re a […]
Governor Gina Raimondo had her daily press conference today at 1pm. “We seem to have hit a plateau, and that is good news,” she said. “We’re still not in a decline, which is where I wish we were, but we’ll take the plateau.” She stressed that the Ocean State is not out of the woods […]
“Date Night, Delivered.” This is what Bre Goldsmith, owner of Bites By Bre, advertises when she posts each week’s soul-hugging menu items on Instagram. (She prefers the term “soul-hugging” to “comfort food” because we need an extra bit of love right now.) If you opt in, you get a three-course meal for Friday night, plus […]