Going 'Zero Carbon' Is All The Rage. But Will It Slow Climate Change?
The warnings come with unsettling regularity: Climate change threatens 1 million plant and animal species. Warmer oceans could lose one-sixth of their fish and other marine life by the end of the century. Global warming is a major risk to the economy . The world's leading scientists have made it clear that to prevent the worst effects of climate change, there needs to be " rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented " changes to our energy systems. In simpler terms: We need to stop adding carbon...
U.S. Schools Underreport How Often Students Are Restrained Or Secluded, Watchdog Says
Updated at 6:37 p.m. ET When students are believed to be a danger to themselves or others, they're sometimes restrained in school or isolated in a separate room. These practices, known as restraint and seclusion, are supposed to be a last resort, and they disproportionately affect boys and students with disabilities or special needs. In the past, government officials have said public schools rarely use these behavior management methods — but now, those same officials aren't so sure. A new...
'Avengers,' But Make It Without Women, Or Men Hugging, Or Levity In General
Brie Larson has vanished. A star of Avengers: Endgame, one of the biggest movies of all time, was completely excised from a modified pirated version of the film — along with everything else in the film seen as feminist or gay. An anonymous fan edited out shots, scenes and characters in a "defeminized" version circulating now on an illegal streaming site. As well as losing Larson's character, Captain Marvel, the defeminized edit is missing a scene where Hawkeye teaches his daughter to shoot. (...
