Herbicide use is changing both the food on your plate and the agriculture industry beyond recognition. Notably, Nautilus writer Miranda Hart calls one herbicide use “the biggest farming practice you’ve never heard of.” Farmers are no longer drying crops out naturally at the end of the season, Hart reveals. Instead, farmers are killing all the plants in the fields with herbicide in a process called desiccation. Farmers are desiccating through herbicide use because it makes the fields easier to clear for planting. However, desiccation is altering crops because it kills every plant in the fields. The Biggest Farming Practice You’ve Never Heard Of “Desiccation may be the most widespread farming…

The first issue of The New York Times was published 168 years ago, and to celebrate we're taking look at a brief history of some of our favorite newspaper words and slang. Before newspapers, there were government bulletins. The Acta Diurna or Daily Acts of ancient Rome were carved in metal or stone and posted in public places. In ancient China, tipao, news sheets produced by the government, were "handwritten on silk and read by government officials." In 16th century Venice, a monthly notice was published and sold for one gazeta, a small copper coin, which may be where we get gazette, another word for newspaper. However, gazeta also means…

The thought of leaving society and everyone around you to escape into the wilderness with the one person whom you want to spend the rest of your life with can seem very attractive, alluring…even romantic, right? Does your relationship have what it takes?