I don’t want to sound skeptical, but do you have a source for this? I’d love to read about it.

Understanding bonds is worthwhile for everyone, since loads of municipalities and states often extend them to finance public projects. We vote on whether to fund shit with bonds here in RI all the time. If you have no clue what a bond is, your vote isn’t well-informed. Same for investment principles - if you’re a…

It’s worth noting that women may be more put off by the price point of medical services because we also make $0.79 for every dollar a man makes on average. (That’s a 2015 figure from IWPR.) Interesting to note that this 21% discrepancy matches the unpaid medical debt figure, though it’s simply coincidence.

The bee thing kind of makes me sigh. I keep a couple hives; this is my third year of beekeeping. Even hobbyists consider or sometimes go through with clipping the queen bee’s wings. She might fly twice in her life, though likely only once — her maiden flight, during which she’s inseminated by drones, and then later,…

Did anyone look at that pic and think ol’ Newt looks oddly Gremlin-like these days?

Here they use a ‘rhino rocket’ for horrible nosebleeds! The description I’ve heard makes it sound more terrifying than bleeding to death from the nose...

Here’s the other thing. If your attending physician or resident isn’t really trained in rape kits and isn’t experienced in performing them, if they’re not a physician tied to a women’s hospital, if they’re not an OBGYN trained in this, your practitioner will be extremely reluctant to do the rape kit. They’re going to…