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In honor of National Bourbon Heritage Month, we're celebrating classic bourbon cocktails. Meet the Old Fashioned, a delicious cocktail that's so much more than the sum of its parts.

Understanding the genetic adaptations that protect the birds’ brains when they dive for food might one day offer clues to protecting human brains.

Natural swimming spots, like the Hamilton Pool Preserve in Texas or Jellyfish Lake in the South Pacific, offer the ultimate in summertime relaxation and beautiful scenery.

According to George Motz, the secret to a great burger is to keep it simple. We break it all down from the meat to the bun. This is how to make the perfect burger. The post Hamburger expert George Motz walks us through how to cook the perfect hamburger appeared first on The Manual.

For most of their lives, plants in the Sapria genus are barely anything — thin ribbons of parasitic cells winding inside vines in Southeast Asian rainforests. They become visible only when they reproduce, bursting from their host as a dinner plate–sized flower that smells like rotting flesh. Now, new research on the genetic instruction book of this rare plant reveals the lengths to which it has gone to become a specialized parasite. The findings, published January 22 in Current Biology, s...

Organisms not related to each other can develop similar physical attributes without even exchanging notes.

coronavirus Still Not Convinced There’s A COVID-19 Crisis? LA Doctors Are Told To Have End Of Life Talk With Fragile Patients Updated Published (Hush Naidoo on Unsplash) Even as the COVID-19 pandemic rages out of control, there are still those who downplay or even deny the seriousness of the situation. Here’s the latest bit of evidence that we really, truly, are in a crisis: L.A. County is asking doctors not to send patients to the ER “unless absolutely medically necessary.” On top of...

coronavirus Still Not Convinced There’s A COVID-19 Crisis? LA Doctors Are Told To Have End Of Life Talk With Fragile Patients Updated Published (Hush Naidoo on Unsplash) Even as the COVID-19 pandemic rages out of control, there are still those who downplay or even deny the seriousness of the situation. Here’s the latest bit of evidence that we really, truly, are in a crisis: L.A. County is asking doctors not to send patients to the ER “unless absolutely medically necessary.” On top of...