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Stories from July 31, 2021

Air quality alert continues; cooler Sunday temps

Air quality alert continues; cooler Sunday temps

The air quality alert due to Canadian wildfire smoke continues through Sunday and beyond. We have details of that, plus a look at temps for Sunday and the coming week.
by Ron Trenda

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Florida breaks record with more than 21,000 new COVID cases

Florida breaks record with more than 21,000 new COVID cases

Florida reported 21,683 new cases of COVID-19, the state’s highest one-day total since the start of the pandemic, according to federal health data released Saturday, as its theme park resorts again started asking visitors to wear masks indoors.
by The Associated Press

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Perfectly impossible: Olympic gymnasts wrestle with the imperfect

Perfectly impossible: Olympic gymnasts wrestle with the imperfect

No elite gymnast — not Olympic all-around champion Sunisa Lee, not six-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles — has received a perfect score since the sport moved off the “10” system to a new Code of Points in 2006.
by The Associated Press

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Air quality FAQ: What you need to know about the smoky air across Minnesota

Air quality FAQ: What you need to know about the smoky air across Minnesota

An air quality alert remains in effect for all of Minnesota through Tuesday, as what state officials call an “unprecedented” stretch of poor air quality continues to affect the region. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about the smoky air.
by Dan Kraker

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Olympic firsts that happened in the first week of competition

Olympic firsts that happened in the first week of competition

This year's Olympic Games has been an event unlike any other before it. The ongoing pandemic has changed so much — but athletes still are blazing trails and making history.
by Sharon Pruitt-Young

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A research vessel found SpongeBob lookalikes a mile under the ocean's surface

A research vessel found SpongeBob lookalikes a mile under the ocean's surface

A photo of a real-life sponge and starfish hanging out together delighted the internet. One scientist acknowledged that the fuss is a bit silly — but he said he welcomes the attention, if it gets people thinking about the life that is dwelling in the world's oceans.
by Laurel Wamsley

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Smoky weekend: Air quality alert continues until Tuesday afternoon

Smoky weekend: Air quality alert continues until Tuesday afternoon

An air quality alert covers all of Minnesota this weekend, due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. We have details of the smoky conditions, plus a look at temps this weekend and into next week.
by Ron Trenda

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This Utah adventure town wants to put the brakes on promoting itself

This Utah adventure town wants to put the brakes on promoting itself

Tourists are visiting national parks and surrounding public lands in record numbers this summer, which is causing some overwhelmed national park gateway towns to rethink their promotion strategies.
by Kirk Siegler

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Judge to decide: Was it 'unreasonable' to ship 81 million opioid pills to one small West Virginia city?

Judge to decide: Was it 'unreasonable' to ship 81 million opioid pills to one small West Virginia city?

As a landmark federal opioid trial nears completion, West Virginia communities are demanding $2.5 billion in compensation. Drug firms say they acted responsibly in shipping millions of pills.
by Brian Mann

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Monsters and magic run in the family in these 2 YA novels

Monsters and magic run in the family in these 2 YA novels

“Six Crimson Cranes” and “The River Has Teeth” — two new July YA novels — both focus on monstrous mothers and folkloric family magic. But apart from that, they couldn't be more different.
by Caitlyn Paxson

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Mayo Platform’s Halamka on new WHO ethics guidelines for AI in medicine

Mayo Platform’s Halamka on new WHO ethics guidelines for AI in medicine

The guidelines say humans — not machines — should remain the decision-makers, the technology must do no harm and doctors must be transparent to help patients understand how it's being used.
by Tom Crann, Megan Burks and Rachel Yang

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