Rebekah Kuschmider

The love of a pet is like no other and makes for perfect holiday self-care! The company of animals can often be superior to the company of humans.

Everyone knows that Hillary Clinton got three million more votes than Donald Trump, right? Yeah. It’s true.

The majority of people in extreme poverty (living on less than a $1.90 a day) throughout the world are women and girls. Despite this, the United Nations found that less than 2 cents of every aid dollar is spent on an adolescent girls.

Some people think periods are blessed celebrations of the cycles of womanhood and its connection to the earth.

OMG, y’all. This has been a week.

I’ve gotta say, mind-magic like this would be an exciting addition to the scope of presidential powers.

The New England Journal of Medicine is reporting promising results from an experimental vaginal ring for STD prevention. Like the rings for birth control, this device is a flexible ring that a woman inserts into her vagina. Instead of releasing birth control, the ring releases anti-bacterial or anti-viral medications to stop STDs before they take hold.

According to the Daily Mail, that’s the lesson animal experts at the Berlin Zoo have learned from Stan and Ollie, two king penguins who were supposed to be part of the zoo’s penguin breeding program. Instead of mating with female penguins and perpetuating their species as zoo officials hoped they would do, Stan and Ollie pair-bonded with one another.

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Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Jeb Bush and so many other candidates were imperfect and problematic in their own ways, but they were also career public servants who knew the risks and the responsibilities of the office. They expected it to be hard. They were ready for it to be hard. We should have elected one of them.