Starting with the “smallest beasts,” the FDA Modernization Act was signed into law by President Biden on Dec. 27. This law amends a law originally passed in 1938 that required drug companies to test new drugs on animals before testing them on humans.
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The very first cat café on record, the Cat Flower Garden, opened in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1998. The idea was simple: offer the residents of this crowded city, living in tiny apartments that didn’t allow pets, a place to just come and be with cats, to “provide relaxing companionship in what otherwise is stressful, urban life” (otherwise known as a cat fix).
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You may know of the alebrijes from seeing them at festivals, galleries, small shops or, in the 2017 movie, “Coco.” Beyond their fascinating and sometimes macabre shapes and beautiful colors, the alebrije’s history is as rich as the culture itself.
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Paw it Forward Someone asked me the other day how he could go about getting an emotional...
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Paw it Forward “For decades, it was thought that only humans cared about the welfare of others,”...
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Plastic bag production creates less harmful environmental byproducts, but the aftereffects of their existence are causing immense destruction.
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I was just leaving work on the last Monday of February when a flash of brilliant yellow caught my...
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We can’t turn on the television or radio these days without hearing about the COVID vaccine and...
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In the last five days of 2021, we lost two Americans whose lives and works encouraged people...
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Dec. 21, 2016: All was calm, as the carol goes. Sophie, my 16 year old, was asleep in her bed in...
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“Desperate times call for desperate measures,” so the saying goes. I guess we can all attest to...
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Do you remember the story of Chicken Little? He was taking a walk one day when something fell from...
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