Food Bank of the Hudson Valley offers preview of 50,000-square-foot warehouse
The Food Bank of the Hudson Valley offered a peek inside its nearly completed distribution center in Montgomery, which will ...
A rare comet brightens the night skies in October
NEW YORK (AP) — Prepare to spot a rare, bright comet. The space rock is slinging toward Earth from the outer reaches of the ...
Buyer beware: Off-brand Ozempic, Zepbound and other weight loss products carry undisclosed risks for consumers
(THE CONVERSATION) In just a few years, brand-name injectable drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound have rocketed to fame as billion-dollar annual sellers for weight loss as well as to ...
So you don’t like Trump or Harris – here’s why it’s still best to vote for one of them
It’s clear that any one vote is very unlikely to swing the presidential election. And some might say that if one vote doesn’t really matter, then voters may as well vote however they want, or not ...
Columbus who? Decolonizing the calendar in Latin America
The first encounter between Aztec emperor Montezuma and conquistador Hernando Cortés took place on Nov. 8, 1519 – the latter backed by an entourage of 300 Spaniards, thousands of Indigenous allies and ...
Misspoke: The long and winding road to becoming a political weasel word
To many, Walz’s use of the word misspoke came across as an attempt to weasel out of what was at best an embellishment and at worst an outright lie.
DEA could reclassify marijuana to a less restrictive category – a drug policy expert weighs the pros and cons
Though there are three criteria for Schedule I in the Controlled Substances Act, the DEA in fact relies on only the medical use criterion. This was the basis of the DEA’s proposal to reschedule ...
Blitz of political attack ads in Pennsylvania and other swing states may be doing candidates and voters more harm than good
When voters perceive ads as unfair or manipulative, they are less likely to vote for the candidate or party producing the ads. And when subjected to repeated unwanted exposure to political ads, they ...
Though home to about 50 white extremist groups, Ohio’s social and political landscape is undergoing rapid racial change
In addition to the increased traffic on social media, we have seen a rise of extremist groups in Ohio known as active clubs, where members engage in physical fitness, combat training and emotional ...
How a subfield of physics led to breakthroughs in AI – and from there to this year’s Nobel Prize
(THE CONVERSATION) John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton received the Nobel Prize in physics on Oct. 8, 2024, for their research on machine learning algorithms and neural networks that help ...
The woman who revolutionized the fantasy genre is finally getting her due
A woman with dwarfism, Judy-Lynn del Rey was best known for founding Del Rey Books, a science fiction and fantasy imprint that turned fantasy in particular into a major publishing category.
5 kinds of American evangelicals and their voting patterns
We used three criteria to develop our five categories: First, each type shares a basic agreement on evangelical theology. Second, they each understand themselves as existing within the larger ...