Month: June 2024

NBC NEWS – If you enjoy having a glass of wine or a cocktail before dozing off during long airplane flights, you might want to reconsider it, a new study suggests. A…

FOOD SAFETY  NEWS – As a political tactic, it’s been almost foolproof. You draw a line around entirely urban jurisdictions and then float a change in an agriculture practice that most voters…

CBC Radio – Everyone knows that exercise helps your heart, but what about your brain? There are well-known links between cardiovascular health and brain health, experts said. Laureys recommends his patients get…

NEWSWEEK – Castor oil is taking TikTok by storm. #Castoroil has over 60,000 posts and Google searches for the plant seed oil have more than doubled since 2022. But while castor oil…

NPR – At the start of a hearing on COVID’s origins last month, Ohio Republican Brad Wenstrup said that the committee was not out to attack science. “Let me be clear, I…

MAYO CLINIC NEWS NETWORK – Damian Di Florio, Ph.D., remembers the lightning-bolt moment five years ago when he began thinking differently about the questions scientists ask. He was a summer undergraduate student…

CT Insider – The president of McDonald’s this week served what he called “a side of facts,” taking aim at claims of high prices at restaurants across the country, and saying that…

THE NEW YORK TIMES – Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama’s mother and an anchor of the Obama family who moved into the White House and provided stability for her two granddaughters as the…

MIT Technology Review – Here in the US, bird flu has now infected cows in nine states, millions of chickens, and—as of last week—a second dairy worker. There’s no indication that the…