I grew up scared of everything: death, the dark, my own face in the bathroom mirror. Eventually, I learned my bottomless fear belied several anxiety and anxiety-adjacent disorders that I’ve…
Day: October 27, 2025
Better for Animals: The Evidence Behind Veg*n Pledges
Animal Charity Evaluators’ Better for Animals: Evidence-Based Insights for Effective Animal Advocacy resource is an ongoing project in which we distill key research on different animal advocacy interventions to help…
Why utility regulators need to do more than call ‘balls and strikes’
When Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, a Democrat, first nominated Marissa Gillett to the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority in 2019, he praised the “ outsider’s perspective ” she would bring to…
California can’t get out of its own way on geothermal
In the early 2000s, the owners of the Mammoth Pacific geothermal station proposed expanding the plant into an area just east of California’s Yosemite National Park. The project boasted on…
The Nobel Prize’s Amazing Track Record in Immunology
By MIKE MAGEE With the announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine last week, the American Association of Immunologists (AAI) took an understandable victory lap, stating: “This…