You can blame Russia for a lot of things: election interference, ransomware attacks, even the death of up to 50,000 dolphins. Now, there’s one more thing to add to the list: the price of cocoa is soaring, and it’s kind of Putin’s fault.
The runaway inflation of 2021 and 2022 appears to be slowing in the U.S.; prices were up 3.8% in May from a year ago, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said on Friday, June 30, after rising more than 4% every previous month of 2023. Read More...
According to Pulse Ghana, the actor’s wife was shot in the head in the parking lot of her office building on Friday, May 10, 2019. Pulse Ghana reports that Jenifer had left the office in the 6300 block of Ivy Lane and was walking to her car when a man armed with a handgun approached her and when she tried to run away, the man followed her and fired multiple shots at her. Read More...
TIME
September 9, 1991 12:00 AM EDT
In at least one animal, the laboratory rat, nature seems much more important than nurture in determining sexual orientation and behavior. At the University of California, Los Angeles, neuroendocrinologis t Roger Gorski is learning exactly what little boy rats are made of.
First of all, they need testosterone and plenty of it early in life. Gorski and his team have found that if they castrate rats just after birth, the animals will exhibit behavior typical of a she-rat with the hots: arching their backs, flexing their tails and allowing other males to mount them. Read More...
