Amazon now sells prescription pet pills

Amazon is expanding its prescription medication business to include your pooches and pussycats. Through its Vetsource partnership announced on Thursday, Amazon says that “hundreds of prescription pet medications” will now be available for US customers to purchase via Amazon’s storefront, including treatments for fleas, ticks, and chronic conditions. Prescription pet drugs can be found by…

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Why red wine is more likely to give you a headache

Ever wonder why that pounding headache seems worse after consuming red wine as opposed to drinking white or sparkling?  Researchers have been investigating this mystery and identified potential head-pounding provocateurs. One theory suggests that a flavanol called quercetin, found in higher concentrations in red wines compared to white, may be responsible.  IS RED WINE GOOD…

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Ink over email: Why handwritten notes still win in business

Why is it that we still get a tiny thrill from checking the mailbox each day? Rationally, we know what’s in there: bills we don’t want, catalogs we never ordered, and that bulky Valpak stuffed with coupons we’ll never use. But somehow, despite the noise, there’s a quiet hope we might find something meaningful. Something personal. Something real. Maybe even…

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Columbia faculty rights group condemns university’s handling of library takeover: ‘Authoritarian ethos’

A faculty rights group at Columbia University condemned the administration’s response to an anti-Israel protest at the campus library on Wednesday, which resulted in dozens of arrests. A letter from the executive committee of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) at Columbia aimed at addressing the “erosion of shared governance” denounced a decision made…

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