Karen Savage

I asked the president why focus on these projects now amid the backdrop of the war in Iran and as gas prices soar. He said the question was “stupid” and a “disgrace to the country” saying he’s “fixing” the reflecting pool.

Former tobacco industry executive Stephen Sayle has been appointed to a senior leadership role at the CDC. Sayle was a lobbyist for Chevron before working for Big Tobacco.

ICE has detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis, despite a judge ordering the baby’s release.

Rachel Fordyce walked through a cemetery to skip paying for parking. She came back to work at Cornell carrying a jar of bees. A few years later, that jar led to one of the biggest bee gatherings ever counted: 5.5 million wild bees packed into 1.5 acres of graveyard dirt. The patch is about the size of a football field. Cornell's research team published the full count this April in a science journal called Apidologie. Every one of those 5.5 million bees is on her own. A regular beehive is one queen with around 30,000 worker bees, all sharing one home, raising babies together as one big family. Each cemetery bee digs her own little tunnel in the dirt, lays her own eggs, raises her own young, and ignores everyone else around her. Millions of tiny solo workers, packed into the same patch of soil, with no queen and no shared hive. The density works out to about 80 bees in every square foot of ground. Add that up across the whole 1.5 acres and you get the pollination power of more than 200 beehives, in a population three times the size of Manhattan. East Lawn's soil is sandy and easy to dig, and the cemetery is rarely disturbed. Cornell's apple orchard sits about one-third of a mile away, giving the bees a feast right next door. These bees, a species called Andrena regularis (or the regular mining bee), sleep underground all winter and come up in early April, right when apple flowers start blooming. At Cornell's orchard, this one wild species is the most common bee on the apple flowers, more common than the managed honeybees beekeepers bring in every spring. The cemetery dates to 1878. These bees have lived in its soil since at least 1935, almost a hundred years before anyone bothered to count them. Before this paper, the last real study of the species came out in 1978. Roughly 70 percent of bee species in the US live underground like this one, and scientists have barely studied any of them. These bees won't sting you. The males don't have stingers at all, the females only sting if you squash one in your hand, and there's no hive or honey for them to defend. The "5.5 million bees" headline sounds like a horror movie. Walk through East Lawn Cemetery in spring and the ground is busy with tiny solo workers, each digging in the dirt and pollinating apple flowers, the kind of bee you'd walk past without ever noticing.

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RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."