We called it the “charismatic megafauna” effect: people care about polar bears, but not mites.

No. In fact, the Anthropocene (and its instantiations with climate change and environmental destruction) is fundamentally about the prioritization of human life over all other life in the biosphere.

There is not one single human activity performed in the Western world that doesn’t directly or indirectly lead to the…

There’s a scene where that wife starts giving some hilarious over the top speech and I think she even SAID “Freedom isn’t free!!!” and I laughed so hard I cried real tears.

Did you write this on my iPhone?

After that post I went out and got a ton of First Aid Beauty skincare stuff and HOLY SHIT. The difference is amazing. I was using Lush before and I can't get over how clean my face feels. My pores are nearly gone, all redness has disappeared. I feel like a porcelain statue of loveliness. So thank you, anonymous…

“Family-owned business falls victim to culture war.” Funny how that whole “personal responsibility” thing never applies to white Christians.

In my (limited but less limited than your normal human) experience, there is no such thing as a “better” hospital room/suite. It might be bigger and shinier and have a good TV, but in the end, the beds are still plastic and you’re still stuck in one.

YES AND THAT WAS WHAT MADE IT WONDERFUL

Bobby this was so fucking funny! “Schindler’s Bike” made me spit out my tea.

You know what? Keanu Reeves.

get out.

The Fett looks cools, for sure, but its the simplicity of the storm trooper design that makes it so iconic. This design feels like a mecha-take on a storm trooper. The same can be said of the darth statue. The interesting thing about both of those "characters" was the color choices, and the curved lines. By adding…

also,

It's great that this money is going to community wellness projects, but taxing an item that is popular with people on food stamps specifically because it is inexpensive (as per the quoted portion of the article) sort of seems like it fails to address the inherent issues of 1. possibly not knowing enough about…

As a healthcare provider serving in Virginia, this is no surprise to me. I have never seen a "legal" forced sterilization but I've seen some "Mississippi appendectomies" where a patient was essentially given a sterilization without her informed consent. Every single patient with this story has been a woman of color.

I understand how to some, this seems entirely logical. Decades of mental illness, mysterious death of a baby, and an easy way to make sure it never happens again. But we should learn from death penalty cases that government can't be trusted to make these decisions. Over time they will over reach and people will be…

I have to tell you, I would not give it up for a Ph.D. Let's say you get one. It takes five years. So then you're 40.

Think of baking like sex.. Yeah I might be able to do it better myself, but it's so much better if someone else does it!

Almost everyone has the Spectre of Regrettable Wang.