Your home is a collection of bacterial neighborhoods: vibrant downtowns (the kitchen), sleepy suburbs (bedrooms) and rural outposts of microbes (that shelf you never can reach). So who’s living there? The Wild Life of Our Home is a project by Rob Dunn, a biologist at N.C. State University, and Noah Fierer at the University of […]
Lisa Sorg
Bio: Lisa Sorg is the editor of INDY Week.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/lisasorg
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In voting no on 751, Durham expects retaliation from lawmakers
This post was updated at 11:09 a.m. with post-vote remarks by Eugene Brown. The Durham City Council would not be pawns. Council voted 4-3 Monday night against the annexation of 751 South, the controversial project planned for the Jordan Lake watershed. By doing so, the council also refused to extend water and sewer service to […]
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Durham City Council votes no on 751 annexation
By a 4-3 vote, Durham City Council voted against annexing 751 South and extending water and sewer service to the controversial proposed development. Yes: Mayor Bill Bell, Mayor Pro Tempore Cora Cole-McFadden and Councilman Howard ClementNo: Councilmen Don Moffitt, Steve Schewel and Eugene Brown and Councilwoman Diane Catotti. Check back tomorrow for more details and […]
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After a decline, coal emissions rise
Carbon dioxide is a major contributor to greenhouse gases, which are largely responsible for global warming. Last year, nearly 40 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution came from fossil fuels. The good news is that nationwide, from 2005 to 2012, carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants decreased by 13 percent. Wind energy, natural gas, […]
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This week in disappointment: payday lending, animal abuse and electric car sales
THE SCENE: Rep. Tim Moffitt, several fellow conservative lawmakers and lobbyists lounge at a Memorial Day cookout at Moffitt’s Asheville pied-à-terre. Two App State nymphettes, Hyapatia Cherrytower and Bunny Tightsizzle, wear duct tape on their nipples. They serve the guests shots of Señor Frogs tequila in red Solo cups while steaks, pork chops and turkey […]
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This week in disappointment: the budget, fracking again
While public schools advocates are rightfully gnashing their teeth over the Senate’s proposed budget cutswe’re awaiting the House’s version of financial wisdomthere is an urgent educational issue that few people are discussing. The Senate plan would close the 24-bed Wright School, a last resort for children ages 6–12 with severe emotional, mental, neurological and developmental […]
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EPA to hold public meeting tonight about water contamination in Wake Forest
Federal and state environmental officials will hold a public meeting tonight about an area of suspected water contamination in Wake Forest. The meeting, hosted by the EPA and N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources, is scheduled for 6—8 p.m. at the Stony Hill Fire Department, 7045 Stony Hill Road, in Wake Forest. The discussion […]
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An intergenerational discussion about rejecting the workplace for domestic life
See also: “Remembering a time when DIY was not a lifestyle choice” on reading Emily Matchar’s Homeward Bound INDY Week invited several people to an intergenerational discussion about the “new domesticity”leaving the traditional workplace for a home-centered life of child-rearing, gardening, cooking, sewing and other domestic tasks. Each participant has a different background. Some worked […]
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Remembering a time when DIY was not a lifestyle choice
Emily Matchar book reading and signing Flyleaf Books 752 MLK Blvd., Chapel Hill Thursday, May 16, 7 p.m. The Regulator Bookshop 720 Ninth St., Durham Friday, May 17, 7 p.m. See also: “An intergenerational discussion about rejecting the workplace for domestic life” I’m such a rotten housekeeper that I had to get a job. Dangerous […]
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INDY’s Jill Warren Lucas to participate in NYT Recipe Lab
Jill Warren Lucas, who writes about food for INDY Week and her blog Eating My Words, is the only home cook in the South invited to join The New York Times‘ Julia Moskin for an online chat as part of the Recipe Lab series. The event will be streamed live Wednesday, May 15, at 8 […]
