Barrett Jones is a clinical pharmacologist who studied at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas. He currently works in a chemistry laboratory in Columbia University (where he also lecturers occasionally) investigating how pharmaceuticals interact with our biological systems. Jones specializes in and is passionate about how...
Climate change challenges facing the world in the New Year leaving you feeling blorft? (Check out Tina Fey.) Here's an antidote: some good news from Jeff Deyette and the Union of Concerned Scientists to start off the new year. We curated this story from EcoWatch. Despite...
Remember the 21-year-old, disaffected hero who starred in the blockbuster film "The Graduate"? Ben was portrayed as smart but aimless, so a well-meaning friend of the family suggested there was a great future in plastics. What was true in 1967 now lands squarely in the...
Tired of the holidaze by now, from Christmas to Chaunukah to Kwanzaa? Well then rest assured, there is one seasonal event that unites us all regardless of religious (or not) background or ethnicity: New Year's Eve. About the last Big Event of the holiday trifecta,...
In this Thanksgiving poem by our not-regular-enough contributor David Feela, an endless buffet becomes a meta for a world increasingly divided by haves and have nots and the consequences of ignorance and indifference. Spoiler alert: in this unusual case, the haves get their comeuppance. Food for...
[caption id="attachment_36145" align="alignright" width="200"] Photograph of President Truman receiving a Thanksgiving turkey from members of the Poultry and Egg National Board and other representatives of the turkey industry, outside the White House., 11/16/1949Harry S. Truman Library[National Archives Identifier 200138][/caption]With snow fall comes the holiday season...
An article written by Tara Bahrampour for The Washington Post looks back to the 1960s, but this time, not to the Vietnam War and the antiwar protests, not to the Civil Rights movement and those protests, not to the high-profile assassinations and not to the...
Michael Pollan (of "How to Change Your Mind") must be psyched. And those who've attended the John Hopkins lectures at the Telluride Mushroom Festival about extremely positive results using psilocybin to mitigate depression and PTSD and help with smoking cessation should be cheering too. The...
Talking heads report healthcare is top of mind these days, not climate change, though scientists report the world has until 2030 to fix the mess we put ourselves in – or else. According to a recent article by Mark Tutton and Katy Scott for CNN,...
Floating islands made out of reeds are home to a tribe that have lived there for centuries. [caption id="attachment_77750" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Approaching the reed island[/caption] On a nearby island of only 2.3 square miles 2,500 people live in a closed community where your hat tells people where...
