For one, Planet Earth is hot.    Europe had more heat deaths last year on record .   The tally was  61,000 deaths .  Will it be worse this year? A high-pressure system from north Africa called Cerberus could bring temperatures exceeding  113 F degrees  this weekend, particularly in the the Mediterranean region.  Sicily and Sardinia could reach the highest ever recorded here,  118.5 F !!! On July 9 Death Valley National Park's Furnace Creek Visitor Center hit  130 F (54.4 C),  beating the previous high set here in 2020.   In comparison, medium-rare steak has an internal temperature of 130-135 F. The hottest temperature ever, however, is contentious, for the 136.4 F (58 C) reading from Al Azizia in 1923 was officially decertified. Thus the current official world record is 134 F (56.7 C) set on July 10, 1913 in Death Valley. Yet, experts today insist that those early records are 100% bogus, and there seems to be some reluctance by authorities to initiate a re-look of the Furnace Cre

The  Women's World Cup begins  play next Wednesday, July 19 in Auckland, New Zealand, with the home team playing Norway.  There are four games on Thursday, two in NZ and two in Sydney, Australia.  The USA-Vietnam match will beam from Auckland at 3PM.  All games on FOX and FS1.  Timing could be a problem, for 3PM Auckland on Friday is 11PM Thursday in New York.  But 5PM Thursday in Hawaii, so perfect. You will see USWNT a lot, standing for the United States Women's National Team.  I won't even go into ICYMI, but can cite this FIFA Women's World Cup, where FIFA is the acronym for Fédération  Internationale de Football Association.  This only started with 7 teams in 1970 when Italy hosted and Denmark won.  FIFA began to run it from 1991, held in China.  The USA has won four times, including the previous Cup in 2019 from France, and also the 2015 games in Canada. USA women are +225 favorites, meaning we have a 31% chance of winning.  England is +375 (21%), followed by Germa

The Pandemic is over, and, while covid still lurks, this subject is swiftly becoming a non-newsworthy subject.  Mind you, don't be stupid about this virus, for it will yet return in various ways.  In the future, though, until this happens, Thursdays will thus evolve into my health and medical advances day.  So for today, from   Worldometer : Most cases this week ( 7 day period ): World  161,589  #1  S. Korea  106,642  ( 66% of all cases ) #2  USA  15,918 #3  Brazil  9,297 But many countries don't report anymore. Cases in past week per million population: World  20 #1  Tokelau  22,496 #2  S. Korea  2,078 #3  Barbados  1309 #18  USA  48 #30  Phillipines  20 Deaths this past week: World  577 Brazil  138 Canada  96 USA  81 Deaths in past week per million population: World  0.07 #1  Barbados  21 #2  Norway  6 #3  New Zealand  5 #16  USA  0.2 The  James Webb Space Telescope celebrated its one-year old birthday  by sending us a new photo of the closest star-forming region to Planet Ea