One woman’s recent journey through Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 opus Rumors led to a truly wholesome moment online. Raven Baxter, who goes by @ravenscimaven on X (formerly Twitter), shared on Tuesday…
Day: April 3, 2024
Bird Flu Was Found in Chickens at the Largest U.S. Egg Producer
The largest producer of fresh eggs in the U.S. said Tuesday it had temporarily halted production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens, and officials said…
Hormonal Birth Control Doesn’t Deserve Its Bad Reputation
Almost two-thirds of U.S. women of reproductive age use some kind of contraception, according to the latest federal data. And millions of them use methods that contain hormones, including birth…
Spencer Virgin: Hot limpets go south: Fine-scale thermal heterogeneity drives summertime limpet distributions
In this blog post, Spencer Virgin, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, discusses his study “Behavioural thermoregulation and food availability drive fine-scale seasonal habitat partitioning in…
California’s new rules allow solar and batteries to help out the grid
For years, utilities have grappled with how to handle the ever-growing number of solar and battery systems trying to connect to the lower-voltage grids that deliver power to customers. That’s…
Andy Chu, Providence
Andy Chu is the SVP of Product and Technology at Providence’s innovation unit. They have launched four companies in recent years (Wildlfower, Xealth, Dexcare and just this week Praia). Andy…
Where’s Our Infrastructure Plan B?
By KMI BELLARD I’ve been thinking a lot about infrastructure. In particular, what to do when it fails. There was, of course, the tragic collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key…