By the Editors at Andrews McMeel EWWWWW! Forget the horrifying clown from It. The newest inhabitant of your nightmares is a giant “fatberg” in the sewer system beneath the streets of London. A fatberg is created by a buildup of fat and grease combined with used diapers, sanitary napkins and wipes. This one is almost the length of three football fields and weighs more than 140 … [Read more...] about NOTW: Fatbergs, errant butt-dials and breast milk lattes
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NOTW: Dumb Florida milk laws, crazy allies and ‘therapists’ who disrobe for money
UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam argues that his “hands are tied” by “federal food laws” and that fresh, “all-natural” milk with the cream skimmed off the top cannot be sold in Florida as “milk” (or “skim milk”) but must be labeled “imitation milk”–unless the “all-natural” milk adds (artificial) vitamin A to the product. A family farm in the … [Read more...] about NOTW: Dumb Florida milk laws, crazy allies and ‘therapists’ who disrobe for money
NOTW: Texas tests, stolen breast milk and really amazing insects
SUSPICIONS CONFIRMED Schools’ standardized tests are often criticized as harmfully rigid, and in the latest version of the Texas Education Agency’s STAAR test, poet Sara Holbrook said she flubbed the “correct” answer for “author motivation”–in two of her own poems that were on the test. Writing in Huffington Post in January, a disheartened Holbrook lamented, “Kids’ futures and … [Read more...] about NOTW: Texas tests, stolen breast milk and really amazing insects