Day: June 16, 2019💾

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The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Americans From Top Cancer Research – Bloomberg

The U.S. Is Purging Chinese Americans From Top Cancer Research – Bloomberg

The dossier on cancer researcher Xifeng Wu was thick with intrigue, if hardly the stuff of a spy thriller. It contained findings that she’d improperly shared confidential information and accepted a half-dozen advisory roles at medical institutions in China. She might have weathered those allegations, but for a larger aspersion that was far more problematic: She was branded an oncological double agent.

A Heat Wave Coming?

It’s possible with summer coming up, and above average temperatures increasingly likely based on the latest predictions, Albany may hit 100 degrees — the first time that’s happened in more then 65 years.

Kane Mountain

Albany has not had 100 degree day since the August 27 – September 5, 1953 heat wave — the longest heat wave at 10 days long in Albany’s history. During the heat wave we had two days that it reached 100 degrees — September 2nd and 3rd.

Weather records for September:
https://www.weather.gov/media/aly/Climate/REF_Files/REFSEP.pdf

Longest heat waves in Albany’s history.
https://www.weather.gov/media/aly/Climate/heatwaves.pdf