October 2, 2018 – Five Shouts Out

Clown calls out a mother who refused to let her son have blue butterfly face paint

EditorOctober 2, 2018October 1, 2018

[caption id="attachment_55833" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Image: Istock[/caption] From a young age, children learn to conform to gender norms, which isn’t always helpful or necessary. It seems so simple to just let...

Science

Gut bacteria’s shocking secret: They produce electricity

FiveOctober 2, 2018September 23, 2018

To date, most electricity-generating bacteria have come from weird environments, but researchers have found more than 100 in the human microbiome, both pathogenic and probiotic. They were unsuspected because they...