Cooking with Coconut Oil Health Benefits are OverBlown, at best. Here are five healthy alternatives. Move over, coconut oil. Photo: Lisovskaya / iStock. In 2003, two small-scale studies claimed that coconut oil could decrease belly fat and increase metabolism. Over the next decade, the newly christened health food blew up in the wellness world. People Read More…
Cheese of the Dead, in this remote Swiss town, residents spent a lifetime aging a wheel for their own funeral. Making Salt From an Ancient, Underground Ocean 150 saves This wheel of cheese was likely a lot larger 149 years ago, but has shriveled due to moisture loss. All photos by Molly McDonough. Imagine setting Read More…
The Gantt Report: By Lucius Gantt Once upon a time, more than a few of America’s political leaders were described as “The Great Satans”. Most residents of the United States looked at the declarations as a meaningless play on words pushed by enemies of Democracy and the American Way. Well, if the Great Satan is Read More…
The Gantt Report: By Lucius Gantt Once upon a time, there was an American television show called “Have Gun, Will Travel”. It was about a gringo gunslinger named Paladin that went from town to town in the Wild West helping people solve problems that a gunslinger could solve. In my mind, Paladin was more than Read More…
Recycling your Plastic Bottle Tops can become a work of art. The city is decorated with murals depicting everything from pea pods in the depths of the southwest downtown parking garage to scenes splashed across walls of businesses that look like they’ve been ripped directly from a dream. A container of caps sits in Chloe Read More…
Benjamin Banneker: A Monumental Effort for A Black Hero, Here is a valentine of sorts from a couple of “she-ros,” District historian Louise Hutchinson and community activist Peggy Seats. They have been trying to erect a monument in the nation’s capital to Benjamin Banneker, America’s first black man of science, whether they get help from Read More…
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