Evolution has fostered many reproductive strategies across the spectrum of life. From dandelions to giraffes, nature finds a way.
One of those ways creates quite a bit of suffering for humans: pollen, the infamous male gametophyte[1] of the plant kingdom.
In the Southeastern U.S., where I live, you know it’s spring when your car has turned yellow[2] and pollen blankets your patio furniture and anything else left outside....
Where you work affects your risk of dying by suicide. For example, loggers, musicians and workers in the oil and gas industries[1] have much higher rates of suicide than the rest of the population.
But on the flip side, some professions have very low rates of suicide. One of them is education. National and state data shows that educators in the U.S., including teachers, professors and librarians, are among the least likely...