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Here’s when it’s safe to eat potatoes that have begun to sprout and when it’s better to toss ‘em altogether, according to official sources and food safety experts.
The feminist scientific journal Psychology of Women Quarterly recently put out a whole issue centered entirely on the #tradwife phenomenon, and it is fascinating.
More than 100 nursing students at UNLV are getting hands-on experience responding to disasters through the school’s first-ever mass casualty simulation. The training is designed to mirror the chaos of a real emergency complete with sirens, screaming victims, and emergency radio chatter.
Mail-in ballots play a big role in Nevada elections. Taking a look at the general election in 2024, 45% of voters voted by mail. Now there is a big divide on whether this executive order will benefit the Silver State.
Not long ago, the idea of Las Vegas landing major league sports teams was a punchline. Now, the city is on the verge of becoming home to the NFL, NHL, WNBA and MLB — and it could eventually add the NBA, too — raising questions about whether the market could become oversaturated.
Federal data reveals fewer than three-quarters of Nevada toddlers received all recommended shots, raising concerns about disease prevention
In his latest book A World Appears: A journey into consciousness, Pollan charts the work of scientists and philosophers, weaving in literary perspectives along the way. He spoke to New Scientist about the value of writing a book where you know less at the end than before you started.

Michael Pollan (A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness) is a science and environmental journalist. Michael returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss why choosing surrender is liberating in both psychedelics and life, what the “hard problem” of consciousness is and how we get to it, and how sentience serves homeostasis in living beings. Michael and Dax talk about asking what the world would be like without consciousness, the remarkable fact that plants can see, hear, and fight, and experimental evidence via the ginger test that disgust originates in the gut. Michael explains the qualitative redness of red, that there’s so much more going on in consciousness besides computation, and what strange places to visit our minds are.

Compared to the days of the coronavirus pandemic a few years ago, customer activity in any pharmacy in the U.S. state of Virginia appears normal. Shelves are well stocked with medications, many of them marked with discounted prices. Yet despite this calm scene, there is growing anticipation of a major crisis in what are known as global supply chains—one that could turn this quiet picture upside down.