“…last week’s announcement that one of the world’s biggest drugmakers, GlaxoSmithKline, is gaining exclusive rights to mine 23andMe’s customer data for drug targets should come as no surprise.” 23andMe Pharma…

It’s a growing trend: Hotels, resorts, safaris, and cruises are increasingly banning plastic straws.

Rational human beings living in America’s largest cities, tiniest towns, and more than 700 burgs in between came together Saturday in a nationwide day of action. Actually, we do care: hundreds of thousands attend…

On June 25, 1876, the Custer myth got its start as Sioux (Lakota), Cheyenne (Tsitsistas), and Arapaho warriors defended themselves and their families against the U.S. Army’s Seventh Cavalry in Medicine Tail Coulee…

Not only is avocado an exceptionally dense source of good fats, vitamins, and antioxidants, but it offers protection against some of the worst degenerative diseases known to humanity.  The Top…

Do cancer specialists owe women a huge apology? Recent research strongly suggests that treatments that are routinely recommended to women with breast cancer have led to unnecessary mastectomies and unnecessary…

Since arriving at Mars in 2012, NASA’s Curiosity rover has drilled into rocks in search of organics – molecules containing carbon. Organics are the building blocks of all life on…

Even after Emancipation, Kossula Oluales spent the rest of his life trying to recover what was lost. Zora Neale Hurston and the Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade’s Last Survivor…

They say burning bird poop could reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

In his latest work, Pollan looks at psychedelic drugs, and in particular at psilocybin and LSD. What Pollan reveals is a history that most people didn’t just forget, they never…