While people love to complain about Covid-19 being spread potentially via bat, we should acknowledge that eating any animal holds potential risk. I'm no longer a vegetarian but I do know that much of the meat we eat is what makes us sick in the first place.
We've long known that we can learn about the health of an area by studying its frogs. Since frogs have such thin skin, they become permeated with anything affecting their environment, rendering them living barometers of what's going on in any ecostystem.
While nobody loves Covid-19, it has brought a silver lining with its storm as most things do. One of these linings is the fact that telemedicine may be here to stay, which is great for families who can't make it to the doctor for various reasons. It's also made lots of activities more accessible to poeple with disabilities, some of whom are finding themselves finally able to participate in a largely virtual world.
If you've been missing Montana and Unicorn, you're in luck. Both are back in business and ready to serve you with their trademark quirkiness. From deep fried carnival food to microbrews, hard cider to unicorn balls, they both have a few things that might help you enjoy your weekend--or at least relax a bit more.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg was an extraordinary woman who moved mountains, ensured freedoms that we enjoy today and fought for feminism her entire life. Like all of our great heroes, she was far from perfect and even made harmful decisions on occasion. That doesn't mean we can't not only celebrate everything she accomplished for democracy as well as mourn for her as we struggle to deal with the aftermath of her death and what it means in the United States right now.
Theme parties are always fun, especially when they're built around one of the most popular bands of all time. A Deadhead Halloween that makes use of everything from Grateful Dead music and decor to themed food and drinks will be a hit with any fans of the band as well as anyone who just enjoys a nice psychadelic vibe.
When people in Indonesia skip wearing a mask for safety during a pandemic, they get much more than a fine. A story is circulating the Internet about how eight people in Indonesia were sentenced to work as grave diggers as a result of their disregard of the local mask wearer.
Last week we discussed Stewie's first word, which is supposed to debut in the first episode of the upcoming season. This week we have photos of the new season to mull over. There aren't many, but the few reveal some clues about the episode.
One of the most plentiful items to use in creating Halloween crafts is the common plastic spider! From bags of tiny plastic spiders to spider rings, they are inexpensive and widely available at just about any store, making them perfect for making crafts of all kinds for Halloween.
An incredible discovery was recently made in the Russian Arctic: a bear from the Ice Age. The specimen is perfectly preserved, with stunning photos of sharp teeth, an ancient muzzle and all of its internal organs in place. It's a rare and amazing find.
Butterscotch is my current favorite flavor, in everything from my lotion to my tea. Tazo makes the best Butterscotch tea! Now I'm on the hunt for the perfect butterscotch dessert. I love a good butterscotch blondie, and puddings are alright, but what else is there?
Only hours after Ruth Bader Ginsburg left us, Mitch McConnell was already promising to vote on her replacement soon. This is the same Senate that can't pass an aid package for Americans during Covid-19 or even get the entire country to mask up, and it's the same Majority Leader who refused to vote on Merrick Garland when Barack Obama wanted to nominate him during the last opening during an election year.
From warm, buttery butterbeer to cocktails like the Buttery Finger, butter beverages are among my favorites. It's really fun to experiment with them and find out how ingredients like chai, cinnamon and cardamom transform the flavors.
Every decade has its weird occurrences, some many more than others. While researchers agree that this plague isn't as bad as the previous one that kept people indoors (yet), 2020 might just be in the running for one of the worst years in history.
Plenty of people are getting bored with Zoom calls, especially when they're required to use them on a daily, and even hourly, basis. So how do you go about making time spent on Zoom calls more engaging?
Letting people choose whether or not to use the video option is a big must since many of us have bad hair days, messy house days and other reasons why we may not want to have our faces on video. Hiding yourself can also make you feel more comfortable.
The Spirit Shop always has always had some cool Halloween products for sale each year, and in recent years they've taken to selling lots of neat things we can keep out year-round. Last year I was able to nab some really neat decorations for almost half off at the end of the season, which makes me want to wait to save that much money again, but I know a lot of things sold out really fast last year, too.
Poems are such powerful tools with which to teach history. My teen and I have been reading several collections by Black poets as well as poems describing events in history that really make some of the material resonate. There is so much power in the rhythm and form of poetry.
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I write for two blogs, one on nuclear issues and one on the space industry. Sometimes subjects overlap between the two blogs. This series of articles has to do with NASA’s interest in using nuclear power to propel spacecraft and power manned bases in space. I decided that I would post these articles in the space blog and not the nuclear blog.
