Yesterday, 34,000 teachers in LA walked off the job. The strike is just the latest in a series of teacher strikes that began last year – and are likely to continue into 2019, writes West Virginia University education scholar Erin McHenry-Sorber. Points of contention in this latest work stoppage: low teacher pay, inadequate funding and a proliferation of charter schools.

At a time when two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese, researchers are starting to investigate an overlooked part of how the brain controls eating: memory. People and animals that don’t remember their last meal tend to eat more, sooner. Georgia State neuroscientist Marise Parent’s new study identified cells in the brain’s memory center, the hippocampus, that are vital to remembering that you’ve eaten – and signaling that it’s not time to eat again.

Wednesday marks 100 years since the ratification of the 18th Amendment. But during the 13 years that alcohol was criminalized in the United States, the booze kept flowing – it just came from “different” sources. Colorado State food historian Jeffrey Miller takes readers back to the days when bootleg alcohol could be flavored with rat carcasses and wood tar. Left with no alternatives, drinkers needed to figure out a way to mask the nauseating taste, and a cocktail movement was born.