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Send us Fan Mail The Johnson and Johnson Approved Vaccine... What does it mean?  The Food and Drug Administration on Saturday authorized Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, beginning the rollout of millions of doses of a third effective vaccine that could reach Americans by early next week. The announcement arrived at a critical moment, as the steep decline in c...

Send us Fan Mail What is Love? DEFINING ‘LOVE’ IN DIFFERENT VARIANTS Love is one of the most profound emotions we experience as humans. It’s bigger than us, meaning, though we can invite it into our lives, we do not have the control over the how, when and where love starts to express itself. Maybe that’s why 72% of people believe in love at first sight .  That’s the tricky thing about love, we can...

Send us Fan Mail What is Antifa? What Exactly Is Antifa and How Does It Work? Many Americans may have heard of Antifa for the first time back in the summer of 2017, when T-shirt clad counter protesters, their faces masked with bandanas, showed up to confront white nationalists marching in the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia. In the ensuing clash, scores of people were injured , including a yo...

Send us Fan Mail What is Wikipedia In short, Wikipedia is a multilingual, openly collaborative online information platform. Like the "wikis" that came before it, the online encyclopedia's content is editable by volunteers from across the globe. Wikipedia has tens of thousands of editors, from issue experts to the casual fans, who can expand, delete, or change information at will. Th...

Send us Fan Mail What is Voodoo?  (This History of a Mis-Represented Religion) Origins In 64 AD, a great fire broke out in Rome for six days and devastated much of the city. According to the writer Tacitus ( Tacitus was a Roman orator and public official. He is widely regarded to have been among the most important Roman historians and to have been one of the greatest prose stylists who wrote in th...

Send us Fan Mail Matthew Henson, The Great African American Explorer and his contributions... Why is Matthew Henson so important? Matthew Henson was an African American explorer best known as the co-discoverer of the North Pole with Robert Edwin Peary in 1909. “The lure of the arctic is tugging at my heart. To me the trail is calling! The old trail, the trail that is always new.” ~Matthew Henson M...

Send us Fan Mail The History of Black History Month Origins: Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African Americans and a time for recognizing their central role in U.S. history. Also known as African American History Month, the event grew out of “Negro History Week,” the brainchild of noted historian Carter G. Woodson and other prominent African Americans.  Other countr...

Send us Fan Mail Where did Valentine's Day Come From? The history of Valentine’s Day—and the story of its patron saint—is shrouded in mystery. We do know that February has long been celebrated as a month of romance, and that St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains vestiges of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. But who was Saint Valentine, and how did he become associated w...

Send us Fan Mail What is the Chinese New Year and how is it the same as the Lunar New Year? When people talk about the "holiday season" in the U.S., they typically refer to that period between Thanksgiving dinner and New Year's Day . But shortly after that, another massive holiday brings friends and family together in several Asian countries, with concurrent parties that carry on th...

Send us Fan Mail Who is Kamala D. Harris, the 49th Vice-President of the United States? Kamala Harris , in full Kamala Devi Harris , (born October 20, 1964, Oakland , California, U.S.), 49th vice president of the United States (2021– ) in the Democratic administration of Pres. Joe Biden . She was the first woman and the first African American to hold the post. She had previously served in the U.S....

Send us Fan Mail Who Am I?  (How to Answer this Question of Life) How do you answer the question: “Who am I?” It’s a simple question, but one that’s surprisingly difficult, since it forces you to ask yourself: where do I get my identity. It’s easy to go through life never consciously answering this question, yet at the same time, allowing your search for an identity to drive every area of your lif...

Send us Fan Mail What do Men Want?  (In Relationships) Here are 7 things he definitely wants, but may be too unaware or embarrassed to ask for. Occasionally, the man in your life will want things that he won’t share with you because he either doesn’t know how to ask… or he’s simply just too embarrassed to ask! But by applying the action steps I’ve outlined below, you’ll be more easily able to unde...

Send us Fan Mail What's the latest on the Johnson and Johnson COVID 19 Vaccine? A third Covid-19 vaccine, one made by Johnson & Johnson, could be authorized for use in the United States in the near future.  The vaccine was made through a collaboration of J&J's Belgium-based vaccine division, Janssen Pharmaceutical, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and it works a bit diff...

Send us Fan Mail Why is the Sky blue? Misconceptions: there are many misconceptions and incorrect answers bandied about — because it reflects the ocean; because oxygen is a blue-colored gas; because sunlight has a blue tint — while the right answer is often thoroughly overlooked The Answer: In truth, the reason the sky is blue is because of three simple factors put together: that sunlight is made...

Send us Fan Mail Why Were CornFlakes Invented?  The Myth, The Math, The Truth Corn flakes , or cornflakes , is a breakfast cereal made from toasting flakes of corn (maize). The cereal, originally made with wheat, was created by William Kellogg in 1894 for his brother John Kellogg . John Kellogg wanted a food that would be healthy for the patients of the Battle Creek Sanitarium in Michigan where he...

Send us Fan Mail 8 Things Doctors and Patients Should Know about the Pfizer COVID19 Vaccine The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 11. The vaccine is given in two doses that are 21 days apart from each other and is reported to be 95% effective at preventing COVID-19. he authorization and distribution of the...

Send us Fan Mail What does Impeachment Really Mean? Impeachment is the process by which a legislative body addresses legal charges against a government official. [1] National legislations differ regarding the definition and consequences of an impeachment. In many countries, for example those in Latin America , "impeachment" refers to a definitive destitution; an official in these jurisdi...

Send us Fan Mail How to Find and Possibly Hide my IP Address In a typical home network—one where you’re accessing the internet from your cable modem, which is connected to your badass wifi router —you have both an external IP address and an internal IP address . In simple terms, an external IP address allows devices around the internet to find you. It’s kind of like calling the company someone wor...

Send us Fan Mail Subscribe today: www.thingsyoushouldknow.supercast.tech What are the Top 10 Most Commonly Asked Interview Questions? Are you ready to ace your upcoming job interview? One of the most important parts of interview preparation is being ready to respond effectively to the questions that employers typically ask. Since these interview questions are so common, hiring managers will expect...

Send us Fan Mail What is the Electoral College? Join the discussion as I review the origins and effects of the Electoral College.  Did you know that we use Popular Vote for every elected office in the country with the exception of the Presidency?   Support the Podcast:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/1590358/support Closing of ReThink Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched!   Start for...