"Someone in Kansas Created a Protected Bike Lane Using Toilet Plungers—and It's Amazing"

"The true paleo diet is eating whatever’s out there in the environment." Based on DNA in dental plaque, it looks like Neanderthals ate whatever they could get their hands on, not just organic, grass-fed beef and free-range chicken. Huh.

Florence Williams on the Outside Podcast talking about her new book "The Nature Fix," which I'm reading right. this. minute.

The bacterium Akkermansia muciniphila appears to protect against obesity and diabetes in mice. Google is already crawling with ways to buy it, natch. *shakes head*