Newsweek – “This study does reinforce growing concerns about the ubiquitous presence of this chemical and whether we need to rethink many of the applications in which it is used,” says Patricia Hunt, an expert on BPA at Washington State University who wasn’t involved in the research. “It’s rather like lining the inside of food and beverage containers with pharmaceuticals, isn’t it?”
Popular Science – If you have 90 minutes to spare, the debate is entertaining. It featured two teams, each with two people. On the pro-GMO side was animal biotech expert Allison Van Eenennaam from the University of California, Davis and, unsurprisingly, Monsanto’s Chief Technology Officer, Robert Fraley. The anti-GMO side had Charles Benbrook, an organics advocate and a professor at Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, as well as Margaret Mellon, formerly of the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Salon – In his latest book, Matthew Avery Sutton, a professor of history at Washington State University, traces this history of American evangelical apocalypticism from the end of the 19th century to the present day. In the process, he proposes a revised understanding of American evangelicalism, focused on the urgent expectations of the end of human history. If you want to understand modern evangelicalism, Sutton says, you have to understand their End Times theology.