By Mary Beth King
July 27, 2020
Somewhere around 55,000 to 60,000 years ago, a woman lived in a cave in what is now called Israel. Mostly likely, she was a Neandertal, probably a little over 5 feet tall and weighing an estimated 130 pounds.
In an excavation that started in 1991, a...
By Mary Beth King
June 03, 2020
Almost any grocery store is filled with products made from corn, also known as maize, in every aisle: fresh corn, canned corn, corn cereal, taco shells, tortilla chips, popcorn, corn sweeteners in hundreds of products, corn fillers in pet food, in soaps...