Virtually no day goes by without an alert from the media about some chemical in the environment that is suspected of harming our health. It may do this by disrupting our hormones, triggering cancer...
"I hate plastics. We should get rid of them.鈥� So began an email I received. The correspondent went on to talk about how plastics are a plague on the environment, how they contain chemicals that...
According to a study in the European Heart Journal, a single angry outburst can have immediate adverse effects. That鈥檚 because anger causes an increase in blood pressure and a release of the stress...
Science can make for a strange bedfellow. I had just finished recording a video showing off one of my favourite sweaters and expounding on the ingenuity and the environmental benefit of it being...
To take or not to take, that is the question many people have been asking themselves about vitamin D supplements. As is so often the case in science, there is no concrete answer. This in spite of...
The marble and granite statue in the Boston Common depicts a physician in medieval clothing holding a cloth next to the face of a man who seems to have passed out. An inscription on the base of the...
