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Arturo Hilario El Observador On the weekend of July 24-25, Australia’s Splendour XR music festival, formerly Splendour in the Grass, which has been around since 2001 and takes place in Byron Bay Australia, stepped into the world of virtual reality and allowed its guests to traverse the festival...
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Universal basic income was championed by Martin Luther King Jr., promoted by Silicon Valley citizens as the “social vaccine for the 21st century” and endorsed by 2016 presidential candidate Andrew Yang, but it has never really caught on. Now its time may have come. On Thursday California lawmakers approved the...
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El porcentaje es espeluznante. En coincidencia con la proliferación generalizada de la variante Delta del coronavirus, más del 99.5% de las muertes recientes por COVID y más del 97% de las hospitalizaciones corresponden a personas no vacunadas, de acuerdo con las cifras del Cirujano General de los Estados Unidos....
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Jessica Molina de Perrysburg dice que cuando era niña se sintió inspirada por el espíritu de activismo, mientras veía a sus padres participar en mítines y protestas que abogaban por los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas. Ahora, como directora de la única escuela primaria bilingüe en...
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Two decades ago, California legislators added a new weapon to the state’s growing arsenal of gun-control measures, already among the toughest in the nation. Their motivation came from 2,000 miles away in a shaken Chicago suburb. It was there that a gunman opened fire in an engine factory where he’d worked...
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The unemployment rate in Silicon Valley saw a slight increase in June, signaling that the region still has a way to go before returning to pre-pandemic levels. The regional unemployment rate increased from 4.6% to 5.1% between mid-May and mid-June, according to a study released this month by Joint Venture Silicon Valley, a nonprofit...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Una medida revolucionaria para reducir los deshechos de plástico acaba de calificar para la votación del 2022. La propuesta proporcionaría un gran incentivo a las empresas para reducir los envases de plástico, con un impuesto de un centavo sobre cada artículo. También obligaría a los productores...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Despite decades of juvenile justice reforms, California is still incarcerating kids of color much more often than their white peers, according to a new analysis. Research collected by The Sentencing Project shows Black teens are nine times more likely to be locked up than white teens, and that’s...
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You may not think of relaxing as a skill that needs to be learned. Doesn’t relaxing just happen without our really thinking about it? Unfortunately, thanks to the current health crisis, relaxing has become more difficult to accomplish for many. While there have always been things that made us...