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How Climate Change Affects Ticks and Lyme Disease

The warming world can be a hospitable place for blacklegged ticks, which carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. They thrive in temperatures at or above 7.2 C (45 F) and at 82% or greater humidity (the warmer and wetter, the better). As climate change steadily bakes the planetwith shorter, milder winters and longer, hotter

Inside the Vanity Fair Oscars Party: Greta Gerwig Dances to Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish Rocks B

As the clock inched toward midnight at the Vanity Fair Oscars party (and on the eight-month long Barbie press tour), Greta Gerwig gleefully danced the night away. With an In-N-Out burger in one hand and a cocktail in the other, Gerwig grooved to Dua Lipas hit Dance the Night with another one of her Barbies,

Ivy Taylor: San Antonio's First Black Woman Mayor

As a San Antonio councilwoman fighting for affordable housing, Ivy R. Taylor was appointed mayor in 2014, when her predecessor left to work for President Obama. She won a second term in 2015, making San Antonio the first major U.S. city to elect a black woman to office. Taylor, 46, talked to Real Simple about

June 12 Democracy Day: Why Nigeria celebrates

Before Buhari's announcement, May 29 had been celebrated as Nigeria's Democracy Day for 18 years after it was first set by the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2000. At the time, Obasanjo had just been elected Nigeria's first democratic president after 16 long years of military rule that culminated in the death of autocratic

Katy Perry Is Cleopatra (With a Grill) in Dark Horse Music Video: Watch

[embedded content] Accusations of cultural appropriation over her geisha-themed performance of Unconditionally at the American Music Awards dont seem to have dampened Katy Perrys spirits: the siren is up to her old tricks in a high-concept, high-octane video for her latest single Dark Horse that sees her transforming into the Egyptian queen Cleopatra. (Katy Patra,