Month: March 2019

When shopping for clothes online, the vast majority of women have to constantly ask themselves the following question: “What will it look like on me?” Why? Because most of the time the models in the catalog are a size two, while 68% of American women are a size 14 or above.  This massive gap between…

On a Wednesday night in February, I watched in frustration as NBC News fretted about the “out of control” protest at the UC-Berkeley Campus, led by “anarchists” against Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopolus, who’d been invited to speak by the Berkeley College Republicans. Though the fire and the broken windows were alarming to some, I was more discouraged that…

Last week, scientists delivered the news that more than 90% of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering from bleaching. Researchers flew in helicopters and small planes over 911 of the individual reefs that comprise the Great Barrier Reef and found that only 68 of them had escaped bleaching entirely. Many of the rest have turned…

When you’re Donald Trump, the show must go on. Even as his administration continues to reel from alleged ties to Russia, the president is making time for surprise appearances during White House tours. But his first unscheduled cameo came with a bit of painful irony. On Tuesday, President Trump literally emerged “from behind a wooden…

One of the saddest aspects of our modern society is our innate fear of strangers. From birth, we’re raised being told about “stranger danger” and to be weary of people we’ve never met. Even as crime rates have plummeted over the past 30 years, people live in greater fear of one another than ever. Imagine a…

When Cynthia Nixon announced her run for governor earlier in 2018, a lot of people didn’t take her seriously. The immediate headlines made jokes about the actress’s iconic “Sex and the City” character, portraying her campaign as a vanity exercise in a time when a reality TV star actually became president and other celebrities like Kanye West…

Martellus Bennett helped the New England Patriots win a Super Bowl championship on Sunday, but he will not be joining the team on their visit to the White House to be honored by President Donald Trump later this year. “I haven’t thought about it,” the Patriots’ tight end told reporters after the game. “But I’m…

Probiotics: They’re not just for your kombucha anymore.    When it comes to public health, infection and pollution often pose similar problems. They can move fast, resist treatment, and cost a lot of money to find a cure. But thanks to some inventive bioscience, there’s a new way to turn bacteria to our advantage in the…

Whether in the classroom or online, the problem of bullying persists for kids. Nearly 1 out of every 4 students report some form of harassment from their peers. Suicide rates for children and teens have continually risen over the past two decades, with the rate among adolescent girls tripling over the past 15 years. So the X Games decided to…

In case you were wondering, don’t mess with comedian Steve Hofstetter. The stand-up comic posted a video of himself recently shutting down a heckler who didn’t like Hofstetter taking a break from his routine to praise Jessica Mendoza, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and Stanford graduate, who last year became the first female to call…