A New Study Shows How Mushrooms Could Save Bees. Yes, Mushrooms.
Mint/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Over the past decade, the honeybee story has been the stuff of science fiction. Back in 2006, beekeepers first noticed their honeybees were mysteriously dying off in huge numbers, with no clear cause. For some, a whopping 30 to 90 percent of their colonies were…
Brett Kavanaugh Is on His Way to the Supreme Court
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. I’ve been deliberately avoiding Brett Kavanaugh lately because I just can’t stand to write about him. The whole sordid, disgusting affair sends me into a depressive spiral whenever I think about it. I feel so badly for Christine Blasey Ford. I can’t even imagine how…
Thousands of Protesters March to #CancelKavanaugh
Protesters opposed to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh take over the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building on Thursday.Bill Clark/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Thousands of protesters descended on Capitol Hill on Thursday, urging senators to vote against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh just one day before a…
Cultural Studies Hoax Mostly Being Brushed Off as Tiresome BS
Yonhap News/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Yesterday I wrote about an extensive hoax perpetrated on various disciplines that are part of the field of cultural studies. Three hoaxsters with no previous expertise brushed up on their pomo and then wrote a series of deliberately dumb papers that…
A Red-State Senator Just Issued a Moving Statement On Why She’s Voting Against Kavanaugh
Tom Williams/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Embattled North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp announced Thursday that she will vote against the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, putting to rest weeks of speculation on how the conservative Democrat would vote amid a tight race against her Republican challenger, Rep. Kevin Cramer,…
The New Cover of Time Magazine Captures the Courage of Christine Blasey Ford in a Deeply Moving Way
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Christine Blasey Ford testified before lawmakers last Thursday on her sexual assault allegation against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, she offered a heart-wrenching testimony, speaking of her fear of coming forward, a sense of civic duty, and the things she cannot forget from that night.…