When I think of Afghanistan, I think of war, tribal strife and Bin Ladin. Not once, until I saw this announcement come through last week, have I thought of beauty, biodiversity or environmental stewardship. And yet, there it is. Afghanistan even has a National Environment Protection Agency, and this week it announced the establishment of the [...]
On the surface, obesity looks to be a self-inflicted wound. Too much food and not enough exercise, right? Not so simple. A new study in PLoS ONE adds heft to a link between pesticides and obesity that’s been emerging for the past several years. Soo Lim, of the Department of Internal Medicine at Seoul National University College [...]
As a newcomer to the blogosphere in recent months, I’ve stumbled on a few really innovative sites. One of the first was “Framing Science,” a blog at scienceblogs.com authored by Matthew Nisbet. Nisbet is a communications professor at American University, and he’s churning out some incredibly helpful ideas. I love the blog — and Nisbet’s [...]
Scientific American usually does a great job — but today, I suspect their reporters weren’t listening very closely when they wrote this post: “Texas vote moves evolution to the top of the class.” I listened this afternoon to the Texas Board of Education as its members revised the state’s science teaching standards, and it sounded to [...]
Lest you think I’m as bad at math as I really am, let me just say I know I skipped Day 60. Day 60 is dead to me. On Day 60, I landed at the doctor’s office again, because an infection didn’t respond to the first antibiotic — so now I’m on two. Yesterday, I [...]
