Author: DPstaff

Cartoons Today: June 12, 2024

Expectation vs reality; Rule of law; Glass half empty; Fauci; Gaza; Refresh, and More…

Wednesday Poem: “Give-and-Take Ghazal”

I would like to give more than I takein this world of takers. I forgive…

Future of Food: Four Myths About Vertical Farming Debunked by an Expert

by Zoe Harris at Singularity Hub: Vertical farms look high-tech and sophisticated, but the premise…

A Doctor Told the Truth. The Feds Showed Up at His Door.

by Emily Yoffe at The Free Press: Eithan Haim, 34, is at the beginning of…

Do Plants Have Minds?

by Rachael Petersen at Aeon: Gustav Theodor Fechner championed the idea that plants have souls…

What We Can Learn From the Decadent Movement

by Kate Hext at Aeon: At its most extreme, Decadence is a reckless pursuit of…

Tolstoy’s Grave

By Stefan Zweig at Poetic Outlaws: For I saw nothing more magnificent, nothing more moving…

The Conviction Effect: National Polls Show Slight Shift Toward Joe Biden

by Liz Wolfe at Reason: In the roughly week and a half since former president…

Tuesday Poem: Glass Half Empty

Why Do You Always Have To Hurt Me?Why Do You Always Have To Think So…

Bizarre Bacteria Defy Textbooks by Writing New Genes

Ewen Callaway in Nature: Genetic information usually travels down a one-way street: genes written in DNA…

Does Sleep Really Clean the Brain? Maybe Not, New Paper Argues

Sara Reardon in Science: We all need sleep, but no one really knows why. For the…

How the Murder of a Black Grocery Store Owner and His Colleagues Galvanized Ida B. Wells’ Anti-Lynching Crusade

From Smithsonian: Coppery like a penny, thick like bad molasses, even a little gamey like a…