Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain grips a spear awkwardly. His face twists up like he’s swallowed something foul– not an uncommon expression for someone with a food tourism show. But in this context it’s different. The rain continues to come down, the spear is dripping. He readjusts his grip, again, as he prepares to perform manken Read More …

Will update with more details later but essentially I got a paper accepted to a supposedly peer-reviewed academic journal called the “US-China Education Review B.” This is, of course, a “predatory” journal, an organization posing as authentic academic journals that only wants your money and has no interest in publishing actual science. But these journals Read More …

For years, researchers have been perplexed by a strange phenomenon happening deep in the forests of West Africa: chimpanzees throwing rocks at trees. A new study, published this month in the journal Biology Letters, sheds some light on the situation. When a chimp wants to huck a stone, it chooses a tree that sounds like Read More …

There are a lot of different ingredients necessary to get people to change their behavior as it relates to climate change but primary among them is getting certain demographics to change their definitions about what an environmentalist looks like. I remember on a bike trip through Murphy, North Carolina in rural Appalachia I stopped in a Read More …