Health:
The "organic" trend began in the produce aisle, then trickled into cosmetics, clothing and pet supplies. Now, dry cleaning is on the laundry list of goods and services being marketed as organic to an eco-conscious public hungry for all things...
Posted on August 14, 2007 11:38 AM • 0 Comments •
Britain's health and safety agency said there was a strong probability that a foot-and-mouth outbreak in southern England originated at a nearby laboratory site and was spread by human movement. There is a "real possibility" the disease was spread by...
Posted on August 8, 2007 8:44 AM • 1 Comments •
Parents aiming to put their babies on the fast track, even if they are still working on walking, each year buy hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of the videos. Unfortunately it's all money down the tubes, according to Dr....
Posted on August 7, 2007 3:08 PM • 1 Comments •
It's a dance that holds many mysteries, to psychologists as well as to the willing participants. Science is just beginning to parse the inner workings of the brain in love, examining the blissful or ruinous fall from a medley of...
Posted on August 3, 2007 12:09 PM • 0 Comments •
New studies have found that people tidy up more thoroughly when there's a faint tang of cleaning liquid in the air; they become more competitive if there's a briefcase in sight, or more cooperative if they glimpse words like "dependable"...
Posted on August 2, 2007 12:03 PM • 0 Comments •
Office workers beware. Almost half of the laser printers tested in the study emitted tiny particles of toner-like material, sending out concentrations ranging from low to high, according to the study findings published online today for the American Chemical Society's...
Posted on August 1, 2007 11:54 AM • 2 Comments •
Air and water contaminants, pesticides in food, lead in soil, as well many other environmental threats which alter the delicate organism of a growing child may cause or worsen disease and induce developmental problems. This finding is part of the...
Posted on July 30, 2007 11:19 AM • 0 Comments •
Some folklorists have cited the five-second rule as an invention of Genghis Khan (who supposedly called it the 20-hour rule), but there's no proof. Medieval etiquette books make no prohibition against eating off the floor; in fact, it was standard...
Posted on July 29, 2007 11:48 AM • 0 Comments •
The Institue for Research on Unlimited Love (IRUL) has the feel good ring of a New Age spiritual retreat where enlightened devotees get to hug things out. Except Stephen Post Post is no guru, as the director of IRUL, at...
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Posted on July 26, 2007 11:18 AM • 0 Comments •
As the benefits of locally grown produce become readily apparent, a growing number of consumers are abandning grocery aisles in favor of shaking the dirt from lettuce leaves themselves. As more people seem to be satisfying a need to connect...
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Posted on July 26, 2007 11:02 AM • 0 Comments •
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.
