Day: May 8, 2019

There is a gut doctor, and he begs Americans: “Throw out this vegetable now.” This news is accompanied by a different image nearly every time. This morning the plea appeared at the bottom of an article on Vox next to a photo of a hand chopping up what appears to be a pile of green apples. At other times, it has been paired with a picture of a petri dish with a worm in it. Other times, a gut bacteria giving off electricity. The inside of a lotus root. An illustrated rendering of roundworms.

The gut doctor’s desperation pops up …

At least one person was killed and seven more were injured in a shooting at the STEM school in Highlands Ranch, Colorado — about 20 miles south of Denver — on Tuesday, according to local officials and news reports.

“We have multiple students that have been injured,” Douglas County Undersheriff Holly Nicholson-Kluth said. The sheriff’s office later said in a statement that an 18-year-old man had died, according to the New York Times.

The shooting reportedly began in the afternoon. When officers arrived on the scene, gunshots were still going off, officials said. Police then took two …