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Apparently in our quest to make EVERYTHING racist, the Washington Post has now dubbed Discovery channel's popular "Shark Week" as racist for "lack of diversity" and featuring too many white men as experts. Especially white men named Mike. ************************************************ The Washington Post @washingtonpost · Follow Official Researchers say Discovery’s programming overwhelmingly featured White men as experts while emphasizing negative messages about sharks. washingtonpost.com ‘Shark Week’ lacks diversity, overrepresents men named Mike, scientists say The experts featured on Discovery's signature shark programming include more men named Mike than women, a recent study found. 3:11 AM · Dec 6, 2022 ******************************************** You...

As Discovery’s Shark Week swims on, Monday’s special called Expedition Unknown: Shark Trek, featured Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, trying to conquer his fear of sharks by boldly going and jumping into the water with them. “I am deathly afraid of sharks,” Shatner told the show’s host, Josh Gates. “I really am.” So to ease the Star Trek actor into things, Gates started by taking Shatner through a couple of relatively safe visits with hammerhead and reef sharks, neither of which are known to eat or attack humans. But those were just the appetizer courses, the main course was swimming...

Girl required to get doctor’s noteA Florida girl was sent home from school when a nurse indicated that fatigue from her menstrual cycle could be a symptom of COVID-19, according to WFTX. The girl, an eighth grade student at Lexington Middle School in Fort Myers, went to the school nurse on Monday complaining of fatigue because she had just started her period. The nurse gave her a form indicating that her condition could be coronavirus-related. Sheila Gayle told the TV station that her daughter didn’t have any aches, chills or a fever. The school said she would either need to...

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer must be a big fan of Discovery Channel's "Shark Week." Whitmer was recorded referencing the television event while waiting to deliver a speech remotely at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. The video, shared on Twitter by The Recount, showed Whitmer joking with attendees at UAW Local 652 in Lansing, where she delivered her address. "It's not just Shark Week, it's Shark Week mother f******," she said, while simply mouthing the expletives without saying them aloud. The comment got laughs from the people who were in the room at the time of the speech. "I have...

The Reno office of the National Weather Service warned Northern California of a fiery tornado Saturday afternoon that had sprung up near a large, fast-moving wildfire in the Sierra. That’s right: A firenado. It is the first known issuance of a tornado warning for the climate phenomenon since it burst into California’s consciousness during the deadly Carr Fire in 2018. Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/weather-news/article244993335.html#storylink=cpy

A spearfisherman who was attacked by a shark over the weekend in Florida was saved by a group of medical professionals who just happened to be in a boat nearby. Cellphone video taken by an employee of Hot Shot Charters shows a man in a wetsuit being helped onto the boat by two fisherman from another boat. ...that the boat he was climbing into was full of nurses ready to assist him during his emergency, including Christine Haines and Glaiza Martin, a pediatric nurse and an operating nurse... The bite was so severe that the man's arm was "mangled" and...

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In the two-hour CGI Special “Mermaids: The Body Found,” Animal Planet dives deep into the idea that mermaids may have been real, and, even better -- related to humans! “It’s a very radical theory on human evolution, but we have approached an age-old myth and really chased its origins,” Animal Planet honcho Charlie Foley told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column. “It has been compiled in a way that is very compelling, making us think that mermaids might not just be mythical creatures.” The show unravels mysterious underwater sound recordings and presents a bone-chilling argument for the Aquatic Ape Theory, which suggests...

(Georgetown) A shark attack in Georgetown County sent a 14-year-old girl to the hospital Saturday. It happened on Debordieu, near Pawleys Island. A day of fun turned into a nightmare for 14-year-old Caelin Lacy of West Palm Beach, Florida. Caelin says she was attacked by bull sharks while swimming on her boogie board, "A group of bait fish had swum in around me, and I hadn't seen them, and a bunch of sharks did too, a pack. They were feeding." Caelin says she was about 25 feet out in the ocean when she was attacked, and she says at one...