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These days, carbon pollution is generally the headliner, but nitrogen pollution definitely has major environmental effects.

Unsurprisingly, like a lot of our environment problems, Big Ag is a big culprit.

We’ve changed a life-giving nutrient into a deadly pollutant. How can we change it back? • 2016 Apr 10 • Elizabeth Grossman • Energy & Environment • Vox

Why Your Hamburger Might Be Leading To Nitrogen Pollution • 2016 Feb 25 • Julia Rosen • The Salt • NPR

Collecting some of the open tabs in Chrome:

1. Uterus transplants are extremely risky. Doctors should keep doing them anyway. • 2016 Apr 11 • Julia Belluz • Science & Health • Vox
2. Scientists now think that being overweight can protect your health • 2015 Nov 17 • Harriet Brown • Quartz
3. In the Jungle • How American music legends made millions off the work of a Zulu tribesman who died a pauper. • 2000 May • Rian Malan • Rolling Stone
4. Chemists Inspired by Plants Make Plastic Out of Carbon Dioxide • 2016 Mar 17 • Tim De Chant • Nova Next
5. Nixon’s Keynesian Solution • 2011 Jul 29 • Joan Hoff • New York Times
6. Researchers Just Discovered a New State of Matter • 2016 Apr 4 • Ria Misra • Gizmodo
7. Who Gets To Be a Geek? Anyone Who Wants to Be • 2012 Jul 26 • John Scalzi • Whatever
8. lilly wachowski encourages viewers to reconsider ‘the matrix’ through the lens of transness • 2016 Apr 4 • Emily Manning • i-D • Vice
9. You Unintentionally Reference Freud All the Time • 2016 Mar 29 • Julia Shaw, Bianca Baker • Scientific American

Especially from the Clinton camp, there has been much talk about how Sanders isn’t really a Democrat.

While Sanders is still technically an independent in Senate, he registered as a Democrat for the New Hampshire primary.

• Is Bernie Sanders a Democrat? • 2016 Feb 23 • Linda Qiu • Politifact
• Bernie Sanders files for Democratic ballot in N.H. primary • 2015 Nov 5 • Dan Blomquist and Robert Way • Boston Globe
• Sanders declares as Democrat in NH primary • 2015 Nov 5 • Kathleen Ronayne • Burlington Free Press
• Democratic primary is far from ordinary • 2006 Sep 11 • Times Argus (regarding how the VT Democratic Party unanimously endorsed Sanders for Senate in 2006)
• How often the 2016 candidates agreed (and disagreed) in their Senate votes, charted • 2015 May 27 • Philip Bump • Washington Post

Despite the controversy over whether or not neonicotinoid pesticides harm bees or not, Ortho has taken the step to phase out and eventually discontinue neonics in their home and garden products.

Of course, it’s a drop in the bucket as far as pesticide use is concerned, considering just how much Big Ag deploys, but it does seem like the Invisible Hand has made a decision.

Home And Garden Giant Ditches Class Of Pesticides That May Harm Bees • 2016 Apr 12 • Allison Aubrey • The Salt • NPR