Quote of the day by Malcolm X (AP photo) Malcolm X’s words push back directly against the idea that fighting for freedom is somehow reserved for a particular kind of person. “You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom,” he said. “All you have to do is to be an intelligent human…

Be it a divorce, a breakup, widowhood or single parenting, women are often left in situations where they have nowhere to go, no other home that they have invested in and no other residence whose doors are open for them. This is why Robyn Yerian, a 70-year-old Texas woman spent about $150,000 from her retirement…

Natasha Agarwal: Image Credit: BelieveNBooks In 2021, Natasha Agarwal was an eighth-grader with a concern that ‘too many children did not have books at home.’ Five years later, the school book drive she began has grown into ‘BelieveNBooks,’ a youth-led nonprofit that has donated more than 250,000 books and reached over 50,000 children in the…

A thirsty bat sweeps over a pond, listens to the echoes returning from its surface and drops closer to drink. But what happens when that same acoustic signal comes from something that only looks like water to its echolocation system? Scientists have found that bats can be surprisingly easy to fool. In controlled experiments, smooth…