November 2021

Nuclear Reactors 967 - Taiwan Does Not Consider Nuclear Power To Be Green Energy

     There is a major worldwide debate about nuclear power that has important implications for its use. On one side of the debate, some analysts believe that nuclear power should be considered to be “green energy” because operation of a nuclear power plant produces very little carbon dioxide.

The Coqui Invasion

It's incredibly important to get rid of an invasive species. They wreak havoc on a habitat, resulting in death and destruction for many other species that they impact. It is completely understandable for the Maui Invasive Species Committee to work hard at eliminating all of the non-native coqui frogs from the area in order to stop the damage already occurring and prevent further damage. That doesn't mean I can't still be saddened by the loss of these frogs.

November Cocktails

As a cranberry cocktail lover who tries to avoid extra sugar, November cocktails get complicated for me. Once in a while you find a diet flavor but it's usually pretty terrible. I saw that Skinny Syrups is selling cranberry flavored syrup without sugar this year so I may try that out and see how it works, especially in my favorite, cranberry lemon-lime soda.

Your Most Incredible Animal Experience

Every time I see this video of a diver petting a seal, it makes me rethink my entire existence. As a child I wanted to be a vet, decided I couldn't stand seeing animals in pain, and changed career paths several times since. But working with animals was always something I wanted to do, and when I see this incredible video, I cry and think about how if I had the chance to start over as a kid, that might be something I'd want to do.

The Great (Or Not-So-Great) Cat Swap

A man is getting a lot of heat for swapping his cat in secret, without telling his wife, in order to get a better-behaved pet in the mix. Six years ago, he got rid of his wife's hissing, scratching cat, brought home an "identical" one and they've since gotten married without her even knowing. He swears it was because the previous cat wasn't one that could be tamed any better but most people don't think it was a very kind thing to do, to say the least.

Weird Things Our Pets Do

Do your pets do weird things around you? Sometimes it feels like it's just their quirky personalities. Sometimes it seems like they just want attention, which is often the case! Pets do their best to communicate their needs to us and frankly it's impressive that they can do that with another species at all.

Ignoring Women's Pain

It seems like every year a variety of stories about misogyny circle around the web, including tales of women's pain being scoffed at or ignored by doctors, and not much seems to come out of it. We worry over people not trusting the medical community lately, but they have good reason. Women, especially Black and indigenous women, have been experimented on without anesthesia because doctors actually believed that they didn't feel pain. We continue to use the tools developed in these experiments today, and the medical community hasn't evolved much from that mindset, either.

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