Saturday Surfing

Finds of the Week:

90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer’s Bee-Decimating Pesticide, Mother Jones — Boo!
Does Thinking About God Improve Our Self-Control?, Wired — This is really interesting, especially because they found that you don’t have to believe in a God to be impacted by thoughts of one
A Generation Hobbled by the Soaring Cost of College, NY Times — We’re chipping away slowly…just like everybody else. Oh yeah, and this is why we will be pushing state school, not our own alma mater.
The Push is Powerful Stuff, Mothering — A look at the hurdles some women have to jump to be able to push during delivery. (Not me, pushing felt good, but I like this all the same.)
My Son Looks Like a Girl. So What?, Motherlode – A nice piece by a mother about why making more room for gay marriages in our culture allows everyone, gay or straight, more room to be themselves.
Welcome to the latest iteration of the “cupcake wars:” Massachusetts v. bake sales, Food Politics — Marion Nestle’s take on our state’s recent reversal of legislation limiting bake sales in schools