We may have figured out what’s killing the bees. Are we brave enough to save them?

When I’m an old lady, I want to have summer picnics with my grandkids. We’ll make blackberry pie and caprese salad. We’ll slice up some watermelon and get totally messy. Unless, of course, the bees all die before then.


FACT CHECK TIME: Colony collapse disorder is a real thing, and it’s getting serious. The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service says that about one in three bites of food are pollinated by bees. It was a total mystery for years, but scientists at Harvard recently published a paper linking the die-offs to use of neonicotinoids, a particular kind of pesticide that stays in the plant throughout its life.

Moms

A dying mother’s letter to her daughters about pain is a must-read for anyone facing uncertainty

Nature

Yellowstone cleaned out its geysers, and they’re chuckling over some of the 20,000 ‘funky’ finds

Culture

British man explains how the U.S. ‘ruined his home.’ The feeling is mutual, but in the best way.

Travel

I live near Disneyland and didn’t think I needed to visit a Disney World resort. So happy I was wrong.