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Florida’s Surgeon General Shows the Danger of Politicizing of MedicineFlorida state surgeon general Joseph Ladapo’s rejection of evidence-based policy stems from political rather than scientific motivations and puts innocent people at riskBy David Robert GrimesFlorida state surgeon general Joseph Ladapo at a press conference held by Governor Ron DeSantis on May 16, 2022, in Sanford, Fla. Credit: NurPhoto SRL/Alamy Stock PhotoAs a measles outbreak tears though Florida, the state’s surgeon general, Joseph Ladapo, is openly…

Astronauts from Turkey, Italy and Sweden returned to Earth on Friday, ending a private three-week mission to the International Space Station.The trio were accompanied by a retired NASA astronaut who now works for Axiom Space, the Houston company that arranged the chartered flight. The crew returned in a SpaceX capsule that parachuted into the Atlantic off the Florida coast.Turkey celebrated Alper Gezeravci’s launch from Cape Canaveral last month. A former fighter pilot and captain for Turkish Airlines, he became the…

The approximately $2.7 billion in tourism losses from the 2018 Florida red tide bloom emphasizes the need to view harmful algae blooms as potential billion-dollar disasters. (Image by Antoine Hart, UCF). Credit: Antoine Hart, University of Central Florida A new study from the University of Central Florida's Rosen College of Hospitality Management has found that the loss to tourism-related businesses due to the 2018 Florida red…

Duke Energy is piloting a floating solar farm in Florida – the state’s first – on an existing cooling pond in Polk County. The almost 1-megawatt (MW) floating solar array features more than 1,800 solar panels that float on top of two acres of the water’s surface on the pond – which used to be a phosphate mining pit – at the Duke Energy Hines Energy Complex in Bartow, southeast of Lakeland. It’s proving enough clean electricity to power around 100 local households. The bifacial floating solar…

LAKELAND, Florida — The lore around Publix goes as follows: George Jenkins was working as a store manager at a Piggly Wiggly in Winter Haven, Florida, when he tried to meet with the grocery chain’s new owner to talk business and introduce himself. The guy blew him off — his secretary said he was in important meetings, but Jenkins overheard him talking golf. So he quit and opened his own store, which he called Publix, right next to the Pig in 1930. He built the business gradually, its growth mirroring Florida’s, and…

While sharks on cocaine sounds like a clumsy Jaws-Scarface crossover, some researchers say the idea may not be as wacky as it sounds—especially in the waters off Florida. There sharks in a diverse assemblage swim along a major drug-smuggling throughway, which potentially exposes the toothy predators to floating bundles of narcotics. “This is the only place in the world where a shark could come into contact with such massive doses of cocaine,” says Tom Hird, a marine biologist and broadcaster based in England. Hird…

Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Florida on Friday, where she addressed the state board of education’s approval of controversial new standards for Black history in public schools, which includes harmful guidelines that state people benefited from being enslaved. Harris, whose mother was a civil rights activist, was in Jacksonville to highlight ways to “protect fundamental freedoms, specifically, the freedom to learn and teach America’s full and true history”, NBC previously reported, citing a White House…

Farmers Insurance will stop offering insurance coverage in the state of Florida. This includes home insurance, auto, and policies that cover a combination of these. Apparently, the company made this decision in order to better manage its risk exposure in such a hurricane and natural disaster-prone state, CNN reported.Cecilia Rose Gooding on the Writers Strike | io9 Interview The move will affect about 100,000 customers in the sunshine state. But this move will not affect Florida customers whouse Farmers Insurance-owned…

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Ike Perlmutter, Marvel Comics | Tagged: florida, Sean HannityFormer chair of Marvel Entertainment Ike Perlmutter has bought a new house next door to that of Fox News' Sean Hannity in Palm Beach.Former chair of Marvel Entertainment, who sold the company to Disney for four-billion, after setting up the deal for Marvel to create its own movies, Ike Perlmutter, has bought a new house. And it happens to be just next door to that of Fox News' Sean Hannity on the South End of Palm Beach's…

As the battle between Disney and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis continues to notch regular updates, anyone who hasn’t been following from the beginning might be a bit confused. Why is this Republican presidential hopeful openly fighting with his state’s biggest taxpayer? Let’s take a look.We Rode the New Disney Coaster Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic RewindThe current conflict began to ramp up in early 2022 with Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.DeSantis faced an outcry over the homophobic and…