The wars Last spring, my husband, Nate, and I traveled to Croatia for vacation. One afternoon during our trip we ventured to a family farm and spent the day tasting the fruits of… read more

The meteorologist is getting better The old adage “You can’t trust the weatherman” was once an accurate statement. In the past, forecasts more than a day or so… read more

The threat of extinction In May, the United Nations Environment Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services released a report stating that approximately one million plant and… read more

A recent BuzzFeed article by Anne Helen Petersen named millennials the “burnout generation” and went viral for weeks, circulating particularly among millennials… read more

Obesity and culture According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 39.8 percent of the U.S. adult population in 2015–2016 was classified as obese based… read more

Advertising apologies In a recent television commercial, Dara Khosrowshahi, the new CEO of Uber, is shown talking to employees and riding around in a car driven by one of the… read more