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Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
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April 30, 2007
Category: Technology
Physicists covening in Canada have a brand new atom smashing project designed to reveal one of the Universe's great secrets: Why does matter have mass? The unsexy sounding still though theoretical sub-atomic particle Higgs boson has an ecumenical alias the...
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Posted by EJGili at 05:34 PM • 6 Comments •
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Feed suppliers in China's rapidly industrialized countryside have been cutting corners. Leading to a health crisis in the pet food industry. Melamine scrap is believed to be commonly mixed in animal feed in China to artificially boost the protein level,...
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Posted by EJGili at 12:21 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Environment
Is the carbon neutral movement just a gimmick? Growth in this free-market form of environmentalism has been blazingly fast. But with no oversight or hard data to support their broad claims are advocates simply selling a form of global-warming indulgence....
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April 29, 2007
Category: Health
Misery lit seems to have a lot in common with a certain strain of bloggers revealing inner-lives of pain and anguish, or at the very very least the salacacious details of their sex lives. Some of the memoirists say they...
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Posted by EJGili at 12:16 PM • 0 Comments •
April 28, 2007
Category: Commentary
If you thought the Christian Right had cornered the market on creationst myths of the Old Testament variety. Think again. A charismatic Muslim cleric has been spreading the word through his tome "The Atlas of Creation." Its author claims to...
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Posted by EJGili at 01:20 PM • 4 Comments •
April 27, 2007
Category: Environment
Corporations responsible for hundreds of the most toxic sites in the United States spent nearly as much money lobbying politicians and funding political campaigns as they did repaying the government for cleaning up their messes, according to a new analysis...
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Posted by EJGili at 12:54 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Health
Apparently, the human body has a regulator much like a thermostat that affects the entire immune system. A snippet of RNA known as miR-155, one of about 500 that have been discovered in mammals in the last 10 years, is...
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April 26, 2007
Category: Environment
The recent sudden collapse of bee colonies mystified scientists and farmers concerned over the potential commerical impact on open-pollinated crops such as almonds. Without workers bees spreading pollen there's no harvest. Experts think they may have the answer to the...
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Posted by EJGili at 01:00 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Environment
Largley unknown in the UK but a well respected man of science and conservation. Peter Ashton has been interested in trees for a long time and in a big way. He knows more about - and has done more to...
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Posted by EJGili at 12:46 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Commentary
As news junkies well know, email has been at the root of several recent scandals used to incriminate politicos and CEOs under investigation. The Send button may be the most dangerous word in the English language. A simple tool intended...
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