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Towing my weight: Partnering with commercial shipping for whale and dolphin research

I didn t give much thought to shipping until I started doing my PhD on whales and dolphins. Food magically appeared onto store shelves out of thin air, where I bought it. I don t think most of us give much thought to where our food comes from , but once I started paying attention how things get around, it was hard to stop

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Would You Fire Someone for Taking Garbage?

An Iowa convenience store employee took no-longer-saleable soup from the dumpster to feed to her dog--and was fired. The Iowa Court of Appeals upheld a decision to deny unemployment benefits to a convenience store employee who was fired for taking soup from the dumpster. The company, an Iowa-based chain of franchises called Casey's General Stores, has a policy that employees cannot remove any company property from the stores without paying for it—including out-of-date, no-longer-saleable items such as doughnuts and soup

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