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Another passing

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I was saddened to hear about the passing of another kid I went to High School with today. Part of getting older is just realizing how many people you’ve known over the years who have passed away. Some good friends too.

‘Soul Train’ and the business of Black joy

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‘Soul Train’ and the business of Black joy


1/21/22 by NPR Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/134356086

Episode: https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510289/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pmoney/2022/01/20220121_pmoney_pmpod1135.mp3?awCollectionId=510289&awEpisodeId=1074784689&orgId=1&topicId=1006&d=1574&p=510289&story=1074784689&t=podcast&e=1074784689&size=25197593&ft=pod&f=510289

When Soul Train first launched in 1970, Black audiences weren’t understood as a viable target market. Don Cornelius changed that forever with his weekly TV dance show.

Shots – Health News : NPR

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How well do rapid COVID tests work to detect omicron? : Shots – Health News : NPR

How much should you trust the results of a rapid antigen test? That's a question many people are asking these days, amid recent research and anecdotes suggesting these tests may be less sensitive to omicron. Researchers are working fast to figure out what's going on and how to improve the tests.

That includes people like Dr. Wilbur Lam, a professor of pediatrics and biomedical engineering at Emory University and one of the lead investigators assessing COVID-19 diagnostic tests for the federal government. His research team began evaluating rapid antigen tests against live samples of the omicron variant last December in the lab, and in early assessments, he says, some tests failed to detect the coronavirus "at a concentration that we would have expected them to catch it if it were another variant."

That finding prompted the Food and Drug Administration to update its online guidance in late December to note that, while rapid antigen tests do detect the omicron variant, "they may have reduced sensitivity."