Saturday Link Love: Air Pollution, Christopher Columbus, and Chicken Plants

Saturday Link Love is a feature where I collect and post links to various articles I’ve come upon over the past week. Feel free to share any interesting articles you’ve come along as well! The more the merrier.

HR 36 is a 22 week abortion ban not a 20 week ban. Why the lie? on Dr. Jen Gunter, “Medicine does not use fertilization age. This is fact. We use gestational age which is based on the first date of the last menstrual period (LMP).”

What Filthy Old Birds Can Tell Us About Air Pollution, on Gizmodo—“By analyzing sooty birds housed in museum collections, scientists have been able to track patterns of US air pollution over the last 135 years.”

The Invention of Christopher Columbus, American Hero, on the Nation—“The American Revolution created the Columbus most of us over the age of 30 learned in grade school. Prior to the late 18th century, he was a historical footnote with no connection to the 13 colonies.”

Slavery Is Alive and Well in America’s Christian “Rehab” Chicken Plants, on Friendly Atheist—“This Wednesday, the investigative journalism outlet Reveal News released a stunning report on the chicken industry and its use of slave labor provided by a so-called Christian “rehab” facility.”

What I Don’t Tell My Students About ‘The Husband Stitch’, on Electric Lit—“The first story in Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘Her Body and Other Parties’ brings up big questions about who we believe and why.”

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