A look at the prison system Continue reading
Tag Archives: Crime
Book Review: The Hate U Give
Approaching a serious topic through YA fiction Continue reading
Living in Fear
It’s time to speak up about the defamatory acts that have been occurring with alarming frequency of late and discuss what it’s like to be Jewish at this point in time. Continue reading
Book Review: Sex on the Moon
Moon rocks are one of the most valuable substances on earth. They were collected during Apollo missions and since those have stopped, they are a finite resource. They are locked away in a vault within a vault, which makes it incredibly impressive that a college kid and his two buxom accomplices managed to steal them. … Continue reading
Monday Reads
You know that cute thing kids do when they’re concentrating and stick out their tongues? There is a link between this quirk and the evolution of language skills. Heroin use has risen in the last decade, but the demographic has changed as well. It used to be all inner-city male, but now users are now … Continue reading
Monday Reads
Nature…or nurture: a debate that has waged for ages. Now a massive twin study has shed some major light on the situation. This has got to be the cutest sea creature ever! And with the best name, too. I rarely Instagram food, but I follow a lot of food ‘grammers and can see how it … Continue reading
Monday Reads
I’d heard wild salmon is better than farm raised, but the price of the farmed stuff has been too tough to resist. Now that I better understand, I may be changing up my fishy habits. It’s hard to imagine because it’s been raining a good bit on the east coast, but Cali is in major … Continue reading
Monday Reads
Bruges, Belgium is a big spot for tourists. It’s also a big spot for beer. The problem is the beer trucks take up a lot of space and make a lot of noise on those streets where the tourists walk. Solution: a brewery is installing a pipeline underground to take beer from the bottling plant … Continue reading
Monday Reads
I get it; people are angry that no charges were brought against the officers involved in the deaths of Michael Brown or Eric Garner, but it is no excuse to [in a pre-meditated fashion] kill two police officers for no reason other than the fact that they wore the uniform. It is a sad day … Continue reading
Monday Reads
It’s hard to think about a night out at the bars that doesn’t include alcohol, but that’s exactly what Brillig Dry Bar created. And I think it looks awesome. If you use lemon zest or juice to flavor a dish, do you realize you could be reducing salt by 75%? That’s a small and very … Continue reading
