"A real-life 'Joker:' Inside the mind of a criminal whose brutality and chaos mirrored the fictional villain perfectly"

In 1976, as a junior in college, I decided to try vegetarianism, thinking I could save money. A classmate suggested I buy Frances Moore Lappe's Diet for a Small Planet as a guide. In an introductory chapter, she said that relentless advertising by the beef industry, from the 1940's onward, had hoodwinked Americans into believing that a daily dose of animal protein was essential to anyone's health; whereas Indians, for example, have thrived for millenia without it. I was ske

We swim in a sea. Some years ago, on what basis I don't recall, I discussed with a FB Friend what chalk is composed of, and wound up sending her an image of chalk under a microscope. Chalk viewed under a microscope. Chalk is a sedimentary rock made up of the skeletons of millions and millions of tiny sea creatures that are generally called plankton. These are single-celled plants that somehow have calcium carbonate skeletons, and it's those skeletons that make up chalk. Thes