Fans of the Saga graphic novel have waited years for this day. Geniuses Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples have returned, and Saga is back on comic store shelves as of today with issue #55. Who else has their guts in a knot over this issue without even having read it yet?
When I was a young adult, I fought alongside other college students for the right for gay folks to be able to adopt children and give blood. It's been two decades and gay and bisexual men are still unable to give blood! This is beyond outrageous. Blood is tested no matter who gives it, and the concern about HIV and AIDS is incredibly discriminatory. All genders and sexualities can get HIV and AIDS and to put restrictions on one is extremely problematic.
Is it ethical to create life using a genetic algorithm? That's the question scientists are asking after making the discovery that it absolutely can be done. A team just created a "biobot" frog using an algorithm and genetically unmodified tissues. This biobot consists of frog skin and tissues that can very well contract and move, but is it really an ethical step in the science world that humans should be taking?
It's always fun to scout the web to find the latest Family Guy collectibles, merch and gifts. Sometimes we run across the oddest items, or the really popular ones--like Peter-themed blankets and shirts that make you look like Peter Griffin himself!
80s kids, Gen Xers and Boomers who lived through the 80s and anyone else who loves the decade, you may squeal when you see this new collaboration between the Grateful Dead and Care Bears! Yes, those Care Bears.
Have you heard about the new Clean Energy Corps? The program consists of jobs in multiple offices across the Department of Energy--both filled and yet to be filled. The idea behind it is to stimulate clean energy growth in the United States, and you don't necessarily have to be experienced in order to participate. There will be 1,000 new openings for jobs that individuals may wish to check out altogether.
When it comes to swapping veggies into recipes for more nutritional content or low-carb or low-sugar alternatives, today we have more choices than ever. You can make your own, buy them pre-made in the store, and even get them to-go from some restaurants. But which ones are the best? As a heavy food swapper, I have a few ideas for you.
What's not to love about Dickey's Barbecue? Between their delicious sandwiches, meats and sides--the fried okra is always my favorite, but the onion straws are also excellent!--and jumbo Big Yellow Cups, it's a real crowd pleaser. The kids also love the free ice cream cones and ino nuggies. So when Dickey's announces something new, it's always extra exciting.
If you're familiar with Poetry magazine, you may already know about their column "The View From Here." In it, the magazine publishes readers of the magazine and of poetry, in general, to share what draws them to poetry in the first place. Guests are not poets but people from all walks of life, from doctors to ironworkers to soldiers. Readers are often surprised by the voices and what they share, and in 2017's Who Reads Poetry, some of the most moving pieces were collected together.
A proposed transportation plan by Canada’s nuclear industry calls for as many as thirty thousand shipments of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel rods to travel through some of Ontario’s most densely populated communities over four decades. The planned transport of spent fuel would begin in the 2040s.
Ambient office = 90 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 96 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 97 nanosieverts per hour
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Ambient office = 102 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 99 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 99 nanosieverts per hour
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Small modular reactors (SMRs) generate under three hundred megawatts of electrical power from nuclear fission. These reactors are much smaller than the one thousand to seventeen hundred megawatt reactors that are in operation today around the world.
Ambient office = 101 nanosieverts per hour
Ambient outside = 87 nanosieverts per hour
Soil exposed to rain water = 89 nanosieverts per hour
Part 2 of 2 Parts (Please read Part 1 first)
