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(1:57) Bee Week: Scripps Spelling Bee
(2:41) cj's week: Viruses & Sonic Booms
(5:14) Jeff's Week: Terrible Booms
(6:39) Jeff’s Week Part 2: Chocolate Cake
(8:08) Headline: From Prevention to Peril: CDC's Lead Program Has Been Dismantled
(11:24) Headline: Paying Top Dollar for Disaster: In Its Transition to Digital, the College Board Is Getting Failing Grades
(16:42) Headline: Bar Exam Blunders: California’s Legal Test Continues to Discover Mis-Scores
(22:40) Micro Systems Tandy Hard Cards
You’d think that lead - responding to it, remediating it, and generally keeping people safe from it - would be an issue we can all agree on helping stamp out.
Nope.
If your house or school was built before the late 70’s, and you or your community haven’t had the privilege of having it completely remediated previously, you are likely at more risk now than ever before.
And while we all expected bumps in the road during the online digitalization of everything in the early aughts, you’d think most organizations would have either figured it out by now or gone extinct. Turns out that’s not the case as both the College Board and California Bar Association struggle with bringing efficient, accurate testing into the digital-era. In 2025. No, this is not an AI hallucination.
Oh yeah, and one of us missed the sonic boom over the weekend. Again!
SpaceX Dragon Re-Entry Sonic Boom Map - @Dillonshrop06
No More Lead Experts: CDC Cuts Jeopardize Child Health
Test of Patience: College Board's Digital Conversion Hits Snags
California bar exam-takers were told they failed. Oops, they passed. | Reuters
Bar Exam Blunders: California’s Legal Test Continues to Mis-Score
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