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Food
Food prices would rise, and avocado supply would fall if U.S.-Mexico border closes
Salon - Nicole Karlis
(AP Photo/Nick Wagner) x April 2, 2019 12:22AM (UTC) As threats continue to emerge from the White House about closing the U.S.-Mexico border, food and trade experts are cautioning that could overall increase
Planetary Habitability
Scientists are one step closer to finding another Earth
Salon - Nicole Karlis
(Getty/dottedhippo) x April 1, 2019 11:00PM (UTC) Prior to 1995, the year the first exoplanet was discovered, we only knew that there were planets in our solar system. Nearly two decades later and 4,000
Culture
Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation about their speculative novels
Salon - Seth Fried
"The Municipalists" by Seth Fried; "Famous Men Who Never Lived" by K. Chess (Penguin Random House; Tin House Book) Building the alternate-universe New York: Novelists Seth Fried and K Chess in conversation
Culture
To be carefree and Muslim is no easy thing
Salon - Aminah Mae Safi
"Not the Girls You're Looking For" and "Tell Me How You Really Feel" by Aminah Mae Safi (Feiwel & Friends) Why I write carefree Muslim girls x April 1, 2019 8:00PM (UTC) To be carefree and Muslim is no
Culture
Nipsey Hussle never stopped giving back
Salon - Rachel Leah
Nipsey Hussle (Getty/Ser Baffo) Nipsey Hussle's remarkable legacy: Acclaimed rapper never stopped giving back to South L.A. x April 1, 2019 7:00PM (UTC) Grammy-nominated rapper, entrepreneur and community
Culture
Hear Elon Musk’s surprise rap song "RIP Harambe"
Salon - Daniel Kreps
Elon Musk (AP/Kiichiro Sato) x April 1, 2019 5:29PM (UTC) This article originally appeared on Rolling Stone. Elon Musk combined a Twitter joke, a years-old meme and Auto-Tune into a surprise new song “RIP
Culture
Sophie Turner understands "Game of Thrones" pay gap, says Kit Harington deserves higher salary
Salon - Zack Sharf
Sophie Turner and Kit Harington in "Game of Thrones" (HBO) x April 1, 2019 5:15PM (UTC) This article originally appeared on IndieWire. While not everyone on “Game of Thrones” is paid equally, Sophie Turner
Culture
Zoe Saldana on James Gunn’s "Guardians" re-hiring: "Redemption is important"
Salon - Jude Dry
Zoe Saldana (Jordan Strauss/invision/ap) x April 1, 2019 4:45PM (UTC) This article originally appeared on IndieWire. Zoe Saldana reacted positively to news Disney had re-instated James Gunn as director
Culture
Jussie Smollett "Saturday Night Live" sketch absolutely roasts the "Empire" actor
Salon - Jude Dry
(YouTube/Saturday Night Live) x April 1, 2019 4:15PM (UTC) This article originally appeared on IndieWire. Jussie Smollett was doubly skewered Saturday night, first by comedian Chris Rock at the NAACP Awards,
Turtles
Warming oceans cast a chill over New England’s sea turtles
Salon - Anna Robuck
(AP Photo/Luci Pemoni, File) x April 1, 2019 9:00AM (UTC) This story originally appeared on Massive Science, an editorial partner site that publishes science stories by scientists. Subscribe to their to
As Houston choked on toxic fumes, Texas legislators targeted air quality programs
Salon - Naveena Sadasivam
(Shutterstock) x April 1, 2019 8:00AM (UTC) This post originally appeared on Grist. For most of last week, Houstonians were dealing with the fallout from a chemical disaster. After storage tanks at Intercontinental
Lori Gottlieb wants you to know therapists are humans, too
Salon - Nicole Karlis
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) x March 31, 2019 11:30PM (UTC) It is easy to mistake a therapist for a supernatural being. They are good listeners, incredibly
Food
How my mother’s caramel recipe taught me to be braver in the kitchen
Salon - Charli Nowak
(Rocky Luten/Food52) x March 31, 2019 10:59PM (UTC) This story first appeared on Food52, an online community that gives you everything you need for a happier kitchen and home – that means tested recipes,
Food
Super Storm Sandy wiped out some restaurants for months but one midtown pizzeria served days later
Salon - Robyn Metcalfe
(Getty/Juanmonino) x March 31, 2019 9:30PM (UTC) New Yorkers love their pizza slices. They eat them while running down some New York avenue on the way to work, or even while working, the sauce dripping
Culture
Jordan Peele's "The Twilight Zone" is a spine-tingler for our darkest timeline
Salon - Melanie McFarland
Tracy Morgan and Kumail Nanjiani in "The Comedian" episode of "The Twilight Zone" (Robert Falconer/CBS) x March 31, 2019 8:00PM (UTC) How well Jordan Peele’s 2019 update of “The Twilight Zone” works depends
Public Health
Health officials’ plug for next FDA chief: Go big on e-cig regulation
Salon - Shefali Luthra
(Shutterstock) x March 31, 2019 5:30PM (UTC) This article originally appeared on Kaiser Health News. In an almost uniform response to the impending exit of Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott
Politics
Nevada wants the Department of Energy to remove deadly plutonium
Salon - Sarah Okeson
FILE -- In this April 19, 2005, file photo, the last of shipment of high-level radioactive waste is driven away from the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Golden, Colo. (Sammy Dallal/The Daily
Food
Drinkers prefer Big Beer keeps its hands off their local craft brews
Salon - Jarrett Hart
(Africa Studio via Shutterstock) x March 31, 2019 4:30PM (UTC) This piece originally appeared on The Conversation. Much of that growth has come at the expense of traditional brewing giants like Anheuser-Busch
Libraries
With vaccine misinformation, libraries walk a fine line
Salon - Jane Roberts
In online forums, vaccine skeptics have been vocal in their outrage at recent decisions by online retailers and social platforms, which they often view as being driven by a censorious government — and
Disaster relief done right: 4 mistakes people make when trying to help after a disaster
Salon - Phil Buchanan
Joaninha Manuel, 9, and her sister Rosita Moises Zacarias, 15, look at their father Francisco Simon in their house destroyed by the cyclone Idai as they go to seep in a shelter in Buzi, Mozambique, on
Culture
The truth about the "campus free speech" crusade
Salon - Jim Sleeper
(Getty/Yana Paskova) The truth about the "campus free speech" crusade and its myths that won't die x March 31, 2019 11:00AM (UTC) Let’s not let the controversy over the Mueller Report’s reception eclipse
Culture
Statistics ruined baseball by perfecting it
Salon - Edwin Amenta
Miami Marlins' Christian Yelich hits an RBI single to score Dee Gordon in the first inning of a baseball game against the Seattle Mariners, Tuesday, April 18, 2017, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Food
The undeniable fun of chile con queso, before & after my parents' divorce
Salon - Sarah McColl
(Rocky Luten/Food52) x March 31, 2019 12:00AM (UTC) This story first appeared on Food52, an online community that gives you everything you need for a happier kitchen and home – that means tested recipes,
Quinceañera with baby fever
Salon - Jennifer Givhan
(Getty/cunfek) x March 30, 2019 11:30PM (UTC) I wanted a quinceañera almost more than anything. But my parents couldn’t afford throwing me one, or the coming-of-age ceremony wasn’t important enough for
Food
More time in the kitchen may not be the answer to feeding kids well
Salon - Lela Nargi
(Getty/PeopleImages) x March 30, 2019 10:59PM (UTC) This story first appeared on Civil Eats. Across race, class, and city, American mothers are tasked with the towering responsibility of feeding their
Food
I didn't teach my kids how to cook. Did I fail them?
Salon - Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/mphillips007) x March 30, 2019 10:30PM (UTC) I have a photograph of my firstborn, aged four. She is sitting on the kitchen floor of our old apartment, wearing a child-sized toque and apron, surrounded
Food
BonAp food boss Carla Lalli-Music: Not only is MSG okay, it is a core staple in the pantry
Salon - Manny Howard
Manny Howard and Carla Lalli Music (Salon Talks) x March 30, 2019 9:30PM (UTC) Carla Lalli Music has made all the mistakes you can make in the kitchen. She’ll tell you herself, as the Food Director of
Mexico City
This is the most colorful cooking class in Mexico City
Salon - Anna Petrow
The table is set at Casa Jacaranda. (Anna Petrow/Fathom) x March 30, 2019 8:29PM (UTC) This article originally appeared on Fathom, the website that unlocks the world for passionate and curious travelers.
Culture
Dagger-sharp satire of HBO's "Veep" feels all too real now
Salon - Melanie McFarland
Julia Louis-Dreyfus in "Veep" (Colleen Hayes/HBO) The dagger-sharp satire of HBO's "Veep," returning for its final season, feels all too real now x March 30, 2019 7:30PM (UTC) “Veep,” returns Sunday at
Media contagion of suicide is real. Here's how to fix it.
Salon - Lisa Pescara-Kovach
Candlelight memorial service for the victims of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School at Pine Trail Park on February 15, 2018 in Parkland, Florida. (mpi04/MediaPunch/IPX) x March 30, 2019