Blister beetles are born with a mission: Infiltrate a bee’s nest. And they waste no time getting to work. The larvae emerge from their eggs by the hundreds, climb the nearest blade of grass and coalesce into a wriggling ball of bodies and faux bee … Discuss
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One of the things I obsessively collect in my cooking life — aside, apparently, from container lids with no bases and jars of mustard seeds because every time a recipe requires it I presume I’m out because of that one time in 2010 I was — is recipes with very short ingredient lists. It’s not...
Where did the trash in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch come from? How do we stop it?
The water bottle could be from Los Angeles, the food container from Manila, and the plastic bag from Shanghai…. But whatever its specific source, almost all of the trash in the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch comes from countries around the … Discuss
Roasted Cauliflower Carbonara
My favorite pasta dish ever! Loaded with crispy bacon, perfectly roasted garlic cauliflower + the best Parmesan sauce EVER. I make carbonara ALL THE TIME. Mainly because I always have everything on hand when it comes to carbonara – spaghetti, bacon, eggs, Parmesan – you know, all the important stuff. But with this wedding...
Omnivore sharks? California scientists find bonnetheads digest greens as well as meat
A four-year study by scientists at the University of California, Irvine found that bonnethead sharks don’t just eat crabs and other small fish, but also live off a diet of sea grass. Researchers at the School of Biological Sciences called the bonnethead … Discuss