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 in Korea, [...]
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 ideas [...]
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 me [...]
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 felt awful. [...]
Pope Benedict XVI really stirred the pot yesterday, with his comments about condoms not working to prevent AIDS. I was tipped off by a few of my Facebook friends, who had not very nice things to say about the Pope in the wake of his words.
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS was apparently so [...]
