A Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) study released this week found that at least 90,000 COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented since June had the victims taken the vaccines that were widely available. Most of the preventable fatalities, about 49,000, occurred last month as the more dangerous delta variant ravaged the U.S. To provide some perspective, that's more Americans than died as the result of 9/11, the Vietnam War, and the various War on Terror conflicts combined. These

Homophobes are in the news this week just to remind us that such bigotry still thrives in some dusty corners of our society. Jon Gruden lost his lucrative job as head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders after his homophobic emails surfaced on Monday, and the Republican Lt. Gov. of North Carolina, Mark Robinson, made headlines for calling folks in the LGBT community "filth." Robinson has since doubled down on his stupidity after facing calls to resign. It's difficult to understand

There is a growing body of research that demonstrates the health benefits of getting outside and communing with nature. We highlighted one such study that found that spending time outside each day reduced stress levels in research participants. Illuminate: "Dr. Mary Carol Hunter, an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and lead author of the research says they found that "for the greatest payoff, in terms of efficiently lowering levels of the stress hormone corti

With fuel, food, and labor shortages worsening, and a mountain of new customs forms to fill out, even those that originally championed Brexit are rethinking their support. According to recent polling by YouGov, only 18% of Brits believe that Brexit is going well with 53% saying it's going badly. The others were neutral or didn't know enough to answer. Despite all the promises of a "Global Britain" by Brexiteers, economists had warned that pulling out of the European Union wou

According to enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit research organization, at the close of the 2021 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students in America, an all-time high, and men only 40.5%.That's a dramatic change from the late 1960s when about 58% of college students were men. Today, many more women are making the decision to pursue higher education while the percentage of men going off to college has remained flat. Because of thi

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] issued a dire climate change assessment yesterday, detailing how humans have altered the environment at an unprecedented pace and warning that the world risks increasingly catastrophic impacts if we fail to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Washington Post: "The landmark report, compiled by 234 authors relying on more than 14,000 studies from around the globe, bluntly lays out for policymakers and the publi