Blogging from Medford, Mass

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/world/europe/turkey-evolution-high-school-curriculum.html?_r=0  This is an article from the NYT about the decision of the Turkish government, known to be secular in character, to remove the teaching of evolution from the ninth grade science curriculum, ostensibly because of "controversy". This can be interpreted as a bow to Erdogan's fundamentalist opposition. The teachers' union is against this drastic decision.






https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/21/well/live/fish-as-medicine-for-rheumatoid-arthritis.html
From the Wellness blog of the NYT an article about an observational study published in Arthritis Care and Research documenting the effect of consumption of various types of non-fried fish on rheumatoid arthritis. Them magnitude of the effect, according to the blog, was equivalent to one-third of the standard drug (methotrexate) treatment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/nyregion/a-forest-floats-on-the-bronx-river-with-free-produce.html?_r=0  This is an article from the NYT about circumventing rules about foraging on public land by offering produce to all comers because this barge in a South Bronx forest, yielding blueberries, onions and wild carrots, is on the river. Swale is the name of the floating forest project that defies the NYC ordinance against cutting or removing or defacing public trees, plants or flowers with destruction of public property.