Wine Before Beer? Beer Before Wine? There’s Finally a Scientific Answer
HRAUN/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Have you ever heard the saying, “beer before wine and you’ll feel fine; wine before beer and you’ll feel queer?” I hadn’t, but apparently it’s popular in Europe. Germany, England, and France all have sayings with a similar sentiment: Drink in the right order or…
Environmentalists Didn’t Expect This Would Happen When They Busted Up Dams
Julie Jacobson/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This post was originally published by Grist. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Dam busting is a grand tradition of American environmentalism. In 1966, when the Sierra Club and allies got Congress to prohibit new dams in the Grand Canyon it…
Raw Data: Incomes of Wage and Salary Workers
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here’s the latest from the president’s Council of Economic Advisers: Here is a look at the strong growth in wages we are seeing for the middle class and lower-income, per Chairman Hassett’s interview on @AliVelshi. pic.twitter.com/H6qh8r6egg — CEA (@WhiteHouseCEA) March 1, 2019 It goes without…
Oakland Teachers Reach Tentative Deal to End Strike
Educators, students and supporters rally at Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, California during a seven-day teachers strike. Jeff Chiu/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, after a week of protest, the Oakland teachers’ union has announced a tentative agreement with the Oakland Unified School District to end the city’s longest such…
The Release of “When I Come Home” Was a Huge Surprise. Solange’s Talent Isn’t.
Daniel DeSlover/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This week: When I Get Home by Solange (Columbia Records, 2019) Why we’re into it: Look, it’s Solange. We had to. We’re sure you’ve already seen it plastered all over the music sites, and on your friends’ Instagram stories, and trending on…
Atlanta Fed’s Robot Gets Suddenly Skittish About the Economy
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Every few days the Atlanta Fed releases an estimate of GDP growth as of that moment. It’s normally in rough agreement with the blue-chip consensus, but not always. Take today, for example: Two weeks ago, the GDPNow forecast dropped dramatically when the retail trade report…