The University of Texas System’s eight universities plan nearly $78 million in spending cuts in response to a request that state agencies slash Source: Austin American-Statesman

Miserable as it can often be, remote work is surprisingly productive — leading many employers to wonder if they’ll ever go back to the office. Source: What If Working From Home Goes on … Forever? – The New York Times

The organization, the Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas, wants to be more inclusive. Some black wine experts say the recent changes aren’t enough. Source: Prestigious Wine Organization Drops Use of Term ‘Master’

Texas Children’s Hospital said it is providing additional capacity through ICU and acute care beds across its campuses to both pediatric and adult patients. Source: Texas Children’s Hospital admitting adult patients to free up hospital beds in Houston

Hays County is more than a week into its second wave of COVID-19 and its new case counts have been rivaling it’s much more densely populated neighbor. Source: Hays County surpasses Travis’s active coronavirus case counts I don’t know if I buy their story of blaming protests. Austin saw larger protests… I’m sure there is…

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Researchers say there are three possible explanations for the anomalous data: One is mundane. Two would revolutionize physics. Source: A Super Sensitive Dark Matter Search Yields Strange Results

The Texas Tribune is using data from the Texas Department of State Health Services to track how many Texans have tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Texas each day. The state data comes from local health officials and it may not represent all cases of the disease given limited testing. Here’s what we know…

National Archives finds the original hand written Juneteeth order. Proclamation informed last Texas enslaved they were free. Source: Juneteenth original order found in National Archives – The Washington Post

Parents face agonizing decisions as the state leaves it up to child care operators to decide what coronavirus safety precautions they wish to continue. Source: Coronavirus cases increase at Texas day cares as state safety rules repealed | The Texas Tribune