A man from Luck, Wisconsin, population 1,191, just won the highest Megabucks lottery jackpot in 8 years after picking up $15.1 million. Mark Cunningham bought the big winning ticket at Wayne’s Food Plus on 151 Butternut Ave. Luck. Cunningham came to the Wisconsin Lottery office in Madison on Monday to claim his winning ticket, saying…

No Rhinos Were Poached In Assam In 2022, The First Time In 45 Years January 19, 2023 The announcement that no rhinos have been poached in 2022 in Assam has been heralded as a global conservation success. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that zero rhinos were poached in 2022 and…

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes collaborated with the Montana Department of Transportation to design and build one of the largest networks of wildlife highway crossings in the U.S. — Previously known as one of Montana’s most dangerous roads, Highway 93 was upgraded to include 42 wildlife crossings that were built based on Indigenous traditional…

With over 260 million people affected globally, asthma is no small problem. From awareness-raising efforts to the domestic treatments being developed to help those afflicted, here are the people and projects leading the charge to address it Frequently under-diagnosed and under-treated – and often dismissed as an insignificant childhood disease – the reality is that…

At first glance, the turn-of-the-century brownstone on Western Avenue in Chicago resembles any other bicycle repair shop. Several thousand bikes in all sizes and colors are crammed into the Working Bikes warehouse, awaiting their new future. “We process about 11,000 bikes a year and find new homes for all of them,” says Trevor Clarke, a…

Jan 19, 2023— “In her new book, How to Change, Katy Milkman offers simple yet profound insights about why better understanding our own internal obstacles–such as laziness, procrastination, forgetfulness, or our tendency to favor instant gratification over long-term rewards–is key to changing ourselves for good. Too often, books deliver one-size-fits-all approaches to common goals, like…

215 years ago, the heroic American legal scholar and abolitionist writer Lysander Spooner was born. Famous for his work The Unconstitutionality of Slavery, Spooner took on disunionist, pro-slavery figures in the intellectual arena by challenging their flawed notion that the Constitution protected their right to enslave black people. Fredrick Douglas, who originally saw the Constitution as a…

Three great stories we found on the internet this week. Fighting cancer The US is losing fewer people to cancer, thanks to increases in screening for the disease, a decrease in smoking, and advances in treatments and vaccines.  The American Cancer Society reports cancer fatalities are down 33 percent from 1991, amounting to 3.8 million…

Three great stories we found on the internet this week. Fighting cancer The US is losing fewer people to cancer, thanks to increases in screening for the disease, a decrease in smoking, and advances in treatments and vaccines.  The American Cancer Society reports cancer fatalities are down 33 percent from 1991, amounting to 3.8 million…

As I started to write this, it was the two-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s insurrection to remain in the White House. I spent the day watching the U.S. House of Representatives try to elect a speaker. A core of right-wing extremists had been blocking Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s bid, and McCarthy only prevailed in the 15th…