“It’s almost like turning off a light switch,” Dre Jones said. “That’s kind of what happened with him.”

“We cry each time we go to harvest our plantains. We expect big bunches but we get angry seeing small bunches because of [gas] flaring.”

Phillips County, home to about 15,000 people spread across 690 square miles. had the country’s highest per capita rate of gun homicides.

“People are convinced that mental illness makes people destructive. Which, long story short, is not true. But this is very entrenched.”

Mentre mi spostavo in giro per il mondo, il mio microbioma cambiava in modi che non potevo controllare.

As I moved across the globe, my microbiome changed in ways that I could not control.

“For a long time, everyone had worked under this paradigm that the earliest animals were the simplest animals.”

“People want to... feel heard and want to see that there are efforts being made, regardless of the evidence behind what works."

S. still dreadfully recalls the time when she would end up finishing an entire packet of painkillers every month just to get through her...

Decades on end and after spending billions, the U.S. still has no strategy to permanently deposit its highly radioactive nuclear waste.