Back of the Book

• Covid~19 cases in the whole world - 177,586,893 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the whole world - 3,845,031 on Friday.
• Covid~19 cases in the United States of America - 33,516,437 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America - 601,228 on Friday.
• Covid~19 deaths in the United States of America since our last program - 2,197.
• Covid~19 cases in India - 29,762,793 cases.
• Covid~19 deaths in India - 383,490.
• Covid~19 deaths in India since our last program - 20,411.
• Summer Solstice - It will happen tomorrow night, June 20th, 2021, at 11:32 PM.
• Supreme Court - Made good and not so good decisions this past week.
• Juneteenth - The President signed the bill making it a federal holiday.
• Dark matter - Scientists are designing a new detector that uses long strands of DNA to pinpoint the direction it comes from.
• Adapting to the late pandemic time - Pickles of the North gave us an update about her latest experience going to the local laundromat.
• Chemicals in space - Scientists have found a chemical used in cell membranes floating in space.

We talked about scientists looking for dark matter, which makes up about 85% of the matter in the universe and about 27% of the universe's total mass–energy density. They're designing an apparatus that will use DNA to determine the direction any dark matter signal comes from.

We talked about scientists in Spain making the first detection in space of ethanolamine, a crucial component of the simplest phospholipid which makes up cell membranes.

We talked about the Supreme Court deciding not to strike down the Obamacare law, but deciding that Philadelphia's exclusion of the Catholic Social Services agency from foster care placement due to their refusal to work with same gender couples was illegal. That decision allows the bigotry to continue.

We talked about President Biden signing into law Juneteenth as a federal holiday.

Pickles of the North told us all about trying that same laundromat with the palmetto bug attendant.

• Guests? Guests? We don't got no guests. We don't need no stinkin' guests! -

• Barracuda - Heart
• Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty

• I have a Web site.

• R. Paul is on Twitter.

• WBAI LSB Treasurer's Reports are here.

• If you want to do something to protect your privacy while using regular browsers, like Firefox, you can check out NOSCRIPT which gives you more control over what Web sites can learn about you.

• Search engines help us to find things on the World Wide Web. Most search engines exist not to help you find things but to allow the companies that provide the search service to data mine your searches and then sell your search history to clients so they can spam you. An alternative to getting your privacy compromised is to use the DuckDuckGo search engine.

• If you'd like to keep your browsing history private you can get yourself the Tor Browser. Using the DuckDuckGo search engine is automatic with the Tor Browser, and by accessing the DuckDuckGo search engine from the Tor Browser you are pretty much guaranteed that no one can trace searches back to you.

• Gnu Privacy Guard can help you to encrypt your data and preserve your privacy.

• For those who need some help getting started with Gnu Privacy Guard there is Gentle GPG which does a lot of the work for you.

• For the somewhat more advanced user who wants to protect his or her privacy there is the Tails OS. Tails is a live operating system that you can start on almost any computer from a USB flash drive or a DVD. It allows you to use any computer that will allow you to boot up off a USB flash drive or a DVD and it provides a lot of good security for your on-line activities. You can get the Tails OS here.