Asian pollution from Asian power plants, cooking and heating could create summer hot spots in the central United States and southern Europe by mid-century, U.S. climate scientists reported on Thursday.
There is something peculiarly compelling about a disaster in the wilderness. Celebrity mishaps hold no fascination for me, but Jon Krakauer's books — Into Thin Air about a tragic climb on Mt. Everest, and Into the Wild (made into a Sean Penn film) chronicling an Alaskan misadventure — were fascinating reading, and of course I couldn't resist Grizzly Man, the Werner Herzog film about former Malibu neighbor Timothy Treadwell. There is something inspiring, or daunting, or terrifying, or all... Read more...
A radioactive tracer that "lights up" cancer hiding inside dense breasts showed promise in its first big test against mammograms, revealing more tumors and giving fewer false alarms, doctors reported Wednesday.
As the world's oceans get warmer, the strongest tropical storms get stronger, climate scientists reported on Wednesday as the remnants of Hurricane Gustav spun out over the central United States.
Government scientists today expressed some concern about the plastic chemical bisphenol A -- but about fewer health topics than they noted last spring.
I learned something interesting today, something that I'm pretty sure that a lot of people aren't aware of. You know that package of "hormone-free" chicken that you make a point of buying? Well, that claim to fame is one that any chicken or poultry product could make, because poultry by law cannot be given hormones. Packages that make the hormone-free claim are required to also have a statement on their packaging saying that federal regulations prohibit the use of hormones,... Read more...
“All the genuine, deep delight of life is in showing people the mud pies you have made; and life is at its best when we confidingly recommend our mud pies to each other's sympathetic consideration.”
—J.M. Thorburn, Art and the Unconscious
For months and months Georgia has been planning to have a Mud Party for her fifth birthday. I can’t quite remember how it came about, I think we were just joking about playing in the mud and somehow the idea of mud + birthday = fun came about.... Read more...
Stevia followers are a diverse bunch, including health nuts and
food-industry magnates. The draw? The sweetener is all-natural and
naturally calorie-free. But "natural" doesn't necessarily mean safe,
and scientists have long struggled to make sense of early evidence
hinting that stevia could be toxic. A series of studies published last
month in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology put that question to
the test for one type of stevia-based sweeteners.