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A child reading braille (Marilyn Nieves / Getty Images)

Students can learn with their mouths

Alyssa Paparella - Massive Science
Published 4 years ago

The finding is a win for education accessibility for blind and low-vision students

The VIPs in "Squid Game" (Noh Juhan/Netflix)

Netflix execs are the "Squid Game" VIPs

Kylie Cheung, Hanh Nguyen
Published 4 years ago

You can put on a green tracksuit and claim all the sympathy you want, but the actions don't quite match the costume

Barack Obama (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images)

There was a president before Trump

Matthew Rozsa
Published 4 years ago

Claude A. Clegg III on "The Black President" — and how Obama's presidency led to both Donald Trump and Joe Biden

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

John Wright
Published 4 years ago

Newly appointed state Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo speaks during a press conference at Neo City Academy in Kissimmee, Florida. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

FL surgeon general refuses to wear mask

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story
Published 4 years ago

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida's surgeon general, has ties to a fringe right-wing group pushing bogus COVID-19 cures

Looking up a word in the dictionary (Getty Images/JGI/Jamie Grill)

"Climate crisis" is now in dictionaries

Kate Yoder - Grist
Published 4 years ago

The eco-lexicon got a major update just in time for the Glasgow summit

Sun Shining Through Oak Tree Branches (Getty Images/bruev)

Sex in trees

Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood
Published 4 years ago

Even with the blinds shut, sex in the city is always on display. Then I moved upstate, with its privacy and silence

Boy in skeleton costume holding bowl full of candies (Getty Images/mediaphotos)

Behind the "candy poisoning" myths

Ashlie D. Stevens
Published 4 years ago

Societal anxieties and a few real tragedies underlie the annual fears over tainted trick-or-treat candy

A security guard speaks to a person from the Office of the Medical Investigator at the entrance to the Bonanza Creek Ranch on October 22, 2021 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Getty Images)

Baldwin shooting followed union walkoff

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
Published 4 years ago

"When union members walk off a set about safety concerns, maybe 'hiring scabs' isn’t the solution you think it is"

(Rocky Luten / Food52)

12 Martha Stewart recipes we love

Erin Alexander - Food52
Published 4 years ago

Including 3 new recipes from her brand-new cookbook, "Martha Stewart's Fruit Desserts"

Kayvan Novak as Nandor and Harvey Guillén as Guillermo in "What We Do in the Shadows" (Russ Martin: FX)

Death comes to What We Do in the Shadows

Melanie McFarland
Published 4 years ago

The Staten Island vampires lose one of their own, and given our widespread exhaustion the loss feels … appropriate?

Mark Zuckerberg | capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Facebook employees fume over Jan. 6 role

John Wright - Raw Story
Published 4 years ago

"History will not judge us kindly," one employee wrote

Photo of Doors with lead singer Jim Morrison, circa 1970 (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

11 surprising facts about Jim Morrison

Kenneth Partridge - Mental Floss
Published 4 years ago

The celebrated yet controversial frontman of the Doors was widely known by his cryptic moniker, The Lizard King

Photomicrograph of algae (Getty Images/NNehring)

Using algae for stroke recovery

Nicole Karlis
Published 4 years ago

A study into a potential stroke recovery method using algae raises other sci-fi possibilities

(James Ransom / Food52)

A pancake for when I'm too lazy

Emma Laperruque - Food52
Published 4 years ago

The batter comes together in one bowl with just a few ingredients

A young girl builds a structure with giant rubber Lego bricks at Berlin's Legoland Discovery Centre in 2007 (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)

Lego's return to gender neutral toys

Naomi Priest, Tania King - The Conversation
Published 4 years ago

When toys are gendered, all children – and eventually adults – pay the price

U.S. President Donald Trump pauses during a news conference at the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House February 29, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Did Trump's social network steal code?

Brett Bachman
Published 4 years ago

Trump made his fortune slapping his name on things other people built. Apparently, not much has changed

Protesters march through Uptown, the Charlotte the business district, before the start of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) September 2, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

Neoliberalism vs. the planet's future

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies
Published 4 years ago

People around the world understand that economic and political systems have failed. Will they demand real change?

Victoria Pedretti and Penn Badly in "You" (John P. Fleenor/Netflix)

The "You" COVID storyline makes no sense

Kaitlin Thomas
Published 4 years ago

As TV series try to figure out whether to address the pandemic or not, Netflix's thriller shows how not to do it

Squid Game (YOUNGKYU PARK/Netflix)

How Netflix affects viewing and identity

David Beer - The Conversation
Published 4 years ago

Look at names of your categories. Into action thrillers, comedies or chilling horror? What do they say about you?

"Real Time" on HBO host Bill Maher (HBO/YouTube)

Maher has a plan to stop Trump's coup

John Wright - Raw Story
Published 4 years ago

"You want to heal America?" he said, addressing the liberals in his audience. "Shut the f**k up for a while."

Ed Begley Jr. (Russell Baer)

Begley saved George Harrison's guitar

Nicole Michael
Published 4 years ago

"Everything Fab Four" opens season 3 with a conversation with actor, activist and Beatles fan/friend Ed Begley, Jr.

World and money burning (Getty Images/dimdimich)

The 1% are destroying Earth, not you

Matthew Rozsa
Published 4 years ago

Modern environmental messaging stresses changes in individual behavior. But most CO2 emissions come from the rich

Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump chant slogans and hold signs outside of the Philadelphia Convention Center as the counting of ballots continues in the state on November 06, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Trump's Big Lie: The new Lost Cause

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Published 4 years ago

Trump has embraced the narrative of the defeated South: Lie about everything, and double down on vicious bigotry

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