Scientists Are Learning Exciting New Things From Shitholes
Mother Jones illustration Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Science may have dealt with a ton of BS last year, but the field also overflows with bowel-related breakthroughs thanks to the wealth of knowledge hidden in human and animal poop. “There’s nothing to be shy about with feces,” says Faith Walker, a genetics research professor at…
Democrats and Republicans Just Worked Together (!) to Make Progress on the Opioid Epidemic
President Trump signs the INTERDICT Act/White House Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Wednesday evening, President Donald Trump signed bipartisan legislation that will appropriate funds to buy machines that identify packages containing fentanyl, an opioid up to 100 times more powerful than morphine that is driving the overdose epidemic. The…
How Oprah Helped Spread Anti-Vaccine Pseudoscience
Sthanlee Mirador/Sipa USA via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Calls for Oprah Winfrey to run for president may have begun as a joke, but in the wake of her rousing Golden Globes speech, speculation has swirled. CNN even ran live updates on a potential “Oprah 2020” campaign on Monday. President Donald Trump told…
This Weed Killer Is Wreaking Havoc on America’s Crops
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Gary TaxaliWhen farmer Darvin Bentlage surveyed his southwestern Missouri soybean fields in August, he knew something was amiss in one of them. “I’ve been looking at soybeans for about 60 years, and these didn’t look right,” he says. The plants’ leaves had shriveled upward, taking the…
This Town Is So Toxic, They Want It Wiped Off the Map
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Annetta Coffman can name 35 people in her neighborhood who have recently died from cancer—and that includes her own family. Coffman’s mother died of cancer in 2007, and three years ago, her 18-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer. “Every single neighbor I’ve had has died of cancer,” Coffman told…
Silicon Valley Wants You To Cash In Your 401K To Buy “Raw Water”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Silicon Valley has an apparently relentless appetite for disrupting the way we eat. Now, it’s coming after your tap water. Behold Source: a Hydropanel, a home system sold by a company called Zero Mass Water that uses condensation to trap water from the air and deliver…