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Popular summer songs have had a bubbly, generic feel to them the past several years, but it wasn’t always like that. Styles used to be more diverse, and things might be headed back in that direction. Sahil Chinoy and Jessia Ma charted song fingerprints over the years for a musical comparison.
Turn up your speakers or put on your headphones for the full experience. The song and music video snippets provide a much better idea of what the charts represent.
Tags: music, New York Times, summer
Posted by in Infographics, Music, New York Times, summer
When I think about summer picnics, I think about family. I think about my cousins, aunts, uncles, kids running around, a pavilion, and an enormous buffet table loaded with delicious food. The quantity of side dishes and desserts is exceeded only by the number of dad jokes we’re forced to endure. Since I’ve been working with foodborne disease, I’ve made a point to share tips with family members who are preparing food so we can avoid getting sick from food poisoning.
Let’s enjoy National Picnic Month by taking a few simple steps:
Rates of food poisoning increase in summer months because bacteria grow faster in warmer weather. Eating food left in the Danger Zone (40°F to 140°F) for too long can make people sick.
It’s important to cook food to a safe internal temperature to destroy harmful bacteria. Never partially grill meat and finish cooking it later.
You never want bacteria from raw meat or seafood to contaminate other foods, surfaces, or utensils.
This summer, I’m going to work hard to try to avoid being one of the 48 million Americans who get food poisoning every year. Let’s raise a glass of iced tea to well-cooked burgers, rinsed veggies, and chilled fruit salad!
Posted by in Aunts, Avoid, Cousins, Desserts, family, food, food poisoning, Foodborne, Kids Running Around, National Picnic Month, Picnics, Preparedness, public health, Sick, Side Dishes, summer, Summer Picnics, Uncles
The 4th of July is a day to celebrate Uncle Sam, enjoy the summer weather, and spend time with family and friends. Keep these five things in mind as you plan your 4th of July celebration.
Fireworks can cause death and injury, including burns, cuts, bruises, and foreign objects in your eyes.
In hot temperatures your body may be unable to properly cool itself. This could lead to serious health problems.
The summer months typically see a spike in reports of foodborne illness. Keep the food safe at your 4th of July picnic or BBQ.
Drowning is responsible for more deaths among children 1 to 4 years old than any other cause except birth defects.
Bugs, including mosquitoes, ticks, and some flies can spread diseases like Zika, dengue, and Lyme disease.
Posted by in 4th of July, drowning, extreme heat, fireworks, food safety, General, Independence Day, mosquito, Preparedness, public health, summer
The summer swim season is here, and millions of Americans will be flocking to local pools for fun in the sun and exercise. However, swimming, like any form of exercise, does not come without health risks. The good news is that we can all take a few simple but effective steps to help keep ourselves and other swimmers we know healthy and safe.
While sunburn and drowning might be the health risks that first come to mind when you think about swimming, diarrhea is another culprit. Outbreaks of diarrheal illness linked to swimming are on the rise. And this Healthy and Safe Swimming Week, we want to make sure you know these important facts about diarrhea-causing germs at aquatic venues, like swimming pools and water playgrounds, and how to protect yourself and loved ones.
Some diarrhea-causing germs can survive in properly treated water for days. Standard levels of chlorine and other disinfectants can kill most germs in swimming pools within minutes. However, Cryptosporidium has a tough outer shell and can survive for up to 10 days in properly treated water. Outbreaks of diarrhea linked to pools or water playgrounds and caused by the parasite Cryptosporidium have doubled since 2014.CDC’s Michele Hlavsa is a nurse and the chief of CDC’s Healthy Swimming Program. As a parent, it is important for her to know how to protect her children from not only diarrhea, but all types of germs and injuries linked to swimming. Michele encourages swimmers to follow a few easy and effective steps each time they swim in a pool or get in a water playground this summer and year-round.
Posted by in diarrhea, drowning, exercise, General, germs, Healthy, Preparedness, public health, Safe, summer, sunborn, Swim, swim diapers, swimming, water, Waterborne, Week
People sunbathe beside a swimming pool in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1941. Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic Creative
People sunbathe beside a swimming pool in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1941. Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic Creative
Surfers overpopulate the waves off of Bondi Beach in Australia, 1963. Photograph by Robert B. Goodman, National Geographic Creative
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Children play in pool they have dug out of the sand on the beach in Le Havre, France, 1936.Photograph by W. Robert Moore, National Geographic Creative
A women’s water ski team lifts skis while being towed at 23 mph on Darts Lake in New York, 1956.Photograph by Robert Sisson, National Geographic Creative
