Jody Allard

9. Use Timeouts—For Yourself!

Here are five things to understand about the case to help you avoid being a complete asshole about it.

If you were a teenager in the 90s, odds are that you screamed your heart out along to Alanis Morissette's music at least a few times.

No, really. It turns out that incredibly strong viruses have been chilling in the arctic (see what I did there?) for millennia, and NOW they are being uncovered by the melting of the ice.

There was another school shooting yesterday and 10 people are dead.

My only regret is that I wasted nearly 40 years trying to bend my chronically ill body to an imaginary idea of perfection.

We live in the over-information age, and food is no exception. It's not enough to simply eat "healthy" anymore — everything from how our food is produced and manufactured to its genetic makeup comes under constant scrutiny, and it's nearly impossible to suss out what really matters. The food we eat has become a moral and ethical choice, with a heaping serving of shame, too.

Science has finally confirmed what moms have been saying forever –– that newborn baby smell is intoxicating.

Only highly educated white people seemed willing to consider the idea that their children might learn best without any instruction at all.