Category: News

Do you overlook scarred, pockmarked fruits and veggies while hunting for perfect produce? If so, you’re not alone, but new research suggests you might want to rethink your shopping strategy. There is mounting evidence that when apples fight off disease, pests and other stressors—the cause of unsightly scabs, blisters and misshapen fruit—they develop more healthy…

When you live in an urban center of the United States, meeting someone who isn’t on services like Facebook or Instagram is a whole lot weirder than meeting someone who is. Social platforms and digital communication tools are so ubiquitous we take for granted that not everyone in the world, well, cares! Such is the…

Morning talk radio has a real reputation for being over the top. But one Philadelphia station took the wacky, zany, sound-effects filled world of radio to an entirely new—and ridiculously offensive—level.  For months, an individual calling himself “Dwyane From Swedesboro” had been dialing into radio host Mike Missanelli’s show. Describing himself as a black man who was often “horny for white women,” Dwayne…

Cards Against Humanity, America’s crudest and most popular form of competitive fill-in-the-blank games, is no stranger to the 2016 presidential election cycle. In May, the company released the “Donald Trump Bug-Out Bag,” a duffel bag packed with emergency food rations, a gas mask, an application to become a Mexican citizen, and other tools for surviving “the collapse of civilization…

The emotional connection an audience feels to film is somewhat of a conundrum. The onscreen talent are professionals, playing fictional roles, most often following storylines of similarly fictional people. The empathy we, the audience, feels for the characters, however, is tangible, as those of us who have been brought to tears watching some of our…

As a medical student, I remember reading books about the early days of the HIV epidemic and wondering what it was like for doctors to take care of patients who had a new, unknown disease. It seemed to me like it would be frightening for both patients and doctors alike. I didn’t expect that early…

You may have noticed something a little off with business signs, newspaper names, and show titles over the last few days. It’s a small but significant change: The letters A, B, and O have been disappearing from signs, front pages, and websites in an effort to raise awareness for blood donation around the globe.  The…

Stay calm everyone, Florida hasn’t been called… yet.  Sure, the election isn’t as big of a slam dunk for Hillary Clinton as we once thought, but that doesn’t mean the fat lady has sung. As of 6:20 p.m. PST, Clinton and Donald Trump are still neck and neck in the polls in Florida (and reminder: Broward…

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A week after Donald Trump won enough electoral votes to clinch the presidency, CEO Bill Penzey of Penzeys Spices released a company newsletter that took many by surprise. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Penzey admonished the president-elect for his racist vitriol and rejected the Republican Party’s “open embrace of racism,” saying it has unleashed a…