Gideon Rubin is news writer for Raw Story, based in Northern California. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where he majored in history. He started out covering sports in the Bay Area ...

Before you go picking apples this time of year, take a closer look at the fruit. Gardeners often use fake apples, coated with a sticky goo, to fool apple maggots.These insects cause the fruit to ...

With more forethought, Adam might not have bitten the apple and I might not have planted apple trees. But he did, and I did, and we each must deal with the consequences. For my part, I hadn't realized ...