Joseph Joseph No Spill Electric Pepper Mill Review: Less Mess, But…
The staff over at Food Republic spend their days obsessing about all the delicious things that go into our stomach. So it makes sense they’d know what gadgets are best suited to the creation of good food. Today, they have pepper on the brain… Just as every coffee lover worth his terroir knows a morning…
The Victorian Hugos: 1887
The Hugo Awards are given to the best science fiction or fantasy works of the previous year. Unfortunately, they’ve only been awarded since 1953. That’s where this column comes in — Jess Nevins will be awarding honorary Hugo Awards to the best novels of the Victorian era… and beyond. Before listing the novels and stories,…
Our bodies are a global marketplace where bacteria trade genes
There is a vast, unseen marketplace that connects us all. The traders are the trillions of bacteria that live on or within our bodies; the commodities they exchange are genes. This flow of genes around our bodies allows bacteria to rapidly evolve new skills, including the abilities to resist antibiotics, cause disease, or break down…