The last piece I want to share is about home health care workers by Sarah Jaffe. I’ve written a number of short snapshots I’ve called “Hospital Stories” about the year I worked taking care of difficult patients in a hospital as a constant observer. This particular piece of journalism ...
Ecology is distinguished from natural history, which deals primarily with the descriptive study of organisms. It is a sub-discipline of biology, which is the study of life. There are many practical applications of ecology in conservation biology, wetland management, natural resource management (agricu...
In case you're wondering, the largest blue catfish ever caught in the United States was plucked out of Kerr Lake in Virginia. Kerr Lake, also known as Buggs Island Lake, is a reservoir of the Roanoke River. Richard Nicholas Anderson wrangled in a catfish from it that weighed 143 pounds...
I think a lot of people say, "I'd love to be a writer," but then they don't write. It sounds really basic, but being a writer is about writing—as often as you can. And you can do that just as soon as you know how. Do you have to go to college to be a writer? College...
Rabbit fever is technically known as a disease called tularemia. TheCDCsays it is typically caused by bacteria found in small animals such as rodents and rabbits. Canva Even if you've never handled a rabbit, you're still very much at risk of getting rabbit fever. According to the CDC, th...
Atlantic. Scotland is home to Europe's largest population of northern gannets, with Bass Rock serving as home base for the largest colony, with upwards of 150,000 of the 5- to 7-pound birds. In October, gannets head south to the West Coast of Africa and beyond, returning as early as ...
The future of the Great Barrier Reef The largest coral reef in the world, the Great Barrier Reef, is home to at least 400 individual species of coral and thousands of different species of fish, mollusks, sea snakes, sea turtles, whales, dolphins, birds and more. As with the other coral...
Sixteen-year-old Elena Mendoza is the product of a virgin birth.This can be scientifically explained (it's called parthenogenesis), but what can't be explained is how Elena is able to heal Freddie, the girl she's had a crush on for years, from a gunshot wound in a Starbucks parking ...