@flipboard | Official Flipboard accountWhere a Sore Throat Becomes a Death SentenceKIGALI, Rwanda — Neighbors whisper that she is pregnant, a disgrace for a young, unmarried woman. The rumors mortify her. She hates her swollen belly.

But Florence Ndimubakunzi is not pregnant. Her heart is failing. It pumps so poorly that blood backs up in her veins, bloating her liver and spleen, …Death PenaltyHow NAFTA Destroyed the Mexican DietThis story was originally published on Civil Eats.

When Alyshia Gálvez’s mother was growing up in California in the 1950s, she traveled to Michigan every winter to visit family. When she returned home, she would march into a grocery store, buy a head of lettuce, and eat it while sitting on the curb …Public HealthWhy a ‘Memory Town’ Is Coming to Your Local Strip MallWeeks after opening near San Diego, a model town for treating dementia is set to be replicated around the U.S.

On August 13, a brand-new town in Southern California welcomed its first residents. They trickled through the doors of a generic beige warehouse on a light-industrial stretch of Main Street …San DiegoSolving the genome puzzleWith advances in gene technology helping to diagnose very rare diseases, has the new era of personalised medicine finally arrived?

Evie Walker sits on her mother’s lap, playing a game she never grows tired of: turning her mother’s hand over and over, stroking and examining it. When she takes a break …The Re-reinvention of Chris(tine and the Queens)In her third act, France’s Héloïse Letissier is playfully muddying the gender lines. But under the name Chris, she continues to make pop’s brashest, queerest records with absolute clarity.

A petite Chris (née Christine and the Queens) lounges in New York’s Standard Hotel. Dressed in a white polo …Short HairThere are now more $100 bills than $1 bills in the worldA funny thing happened on the way to a world of cryptocurrencies and mobile payments. Cash became more popular than ever. The main reason? The one hundred dollar bill.

In 2017, for the first time ever, the one hundred dollar bill became the most popular US bill in circulation, beating out the one …Mobile PaymentsThe epic rise and fall of the name HeatherWhen people think of endangered species, they tend to think of the giant panda, the blue whale, or maybe the snow leopard. We need to add another group to the list: women named Heather.

A Quartz analysis of US baby-name data that goes back to 1880 finds that no name in history has become so popular …Giant PandasSilicon Valley thinks everyone feels the same six emotionsThe world is being flooded with technology designed to monitor our emotions. Amazon’s Alexa is one of many virtual assistants that detect tone and timbre of voice in order to better understand commands. CCTV cameras can track faces through public space, and supposedly detect criminals before they …Papua New GuineaIce Surveys and Neckties at Dinner: Here’s Life at an Arctic OutpostWant climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter.

For the past 40 years, thanks to satellite measurements, scientists have known that sea ice coverage in the Arctic is shrinking. Global warming has reduced the extent of ice in the region in summer, when it is at its …The ArcticDaily Edition Top 10 (September 17, 2018)The controversy surrounding Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s former classmate who has accused him of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, escalated this week. Congressional Republicans are reportedly offering to hold the hearing Wednesday …U.S. Supreme CourtHow Puberty Kills Girls’ ConfidenceIn their tween and teenage years, girls become dramatically less self-assured—a feeling that often lasts through adulthood.

The change can be baffling to many parents: Their young girls are masters of the universe, full of gutsy fire. But as puberty sets in, their confidence nose-dives, and those …PollingHow Far Have We Really Come Since Anita Hill?Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations against Brett Kavanaugh present a test that the Senate very well may not pass.

With a Supreme Court nominee’s confirmation hearings thrown into chaos by accusations of sexual misconduct, the Brett Kavanaugh drama feels like a familiar spectacle. During Clarence …Brett KavanaughThe Man Behind Trump’s ‘Invisible Wall’USCIS Director Lee Francis Cissna is the son of an immigrant, the son-in-law of a refugee and a man who says he’s just obsessed with the fair implementation of laws. So why is he making them so much harder for immigrants?

This summer, as anger over the separation of migrant families at the border …Homeland SecuritySee How the Fall Equinox Is Celebrated Around the WorldCulture & ExplorationPhoto Gallery

From early-morning gatherings at Stonehenge to torch-bearing revelers parading through a city in Spain, people around the world herald the seasonal change in myriad ways.

As the autumn equinox approaches, days begin to shorten in the Northern Hemisphere, and people …National Parks

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