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Poison Ivy
The old adage “leaves of three, let it be” helps to identify and therefore avoid poison ivy. The plant is polymorphic, growing as ground cover, small shrubs up to two or three feet high, or a climbing...
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Global Warming, Fossil Fuels, Air Quality, and Health
Everybody wants to be healthy, and we go to considerable lengths to achieve the same. Preventive care, diet and exercise all contribute to good health. There are factors however which are beyond our...
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Worried Sick- the Nocebo Effect
A synthetic form of thyroxine called Eltroxin, chemically and biologically identical to natural thyroxine, has been in use for over forty years. It is used effectively to treat hypothyroidism which if...
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Arsenic Anyone?
A popular talk show doctor recently had several brands of Apple juice tested and claimed to have found Arsenic. Whereas nobody wants poison in her food, the question of the amount and its relevance is...
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Poison Ivy
The old adage “leaves of three, let it be” helps to identify and therefore avoid poison ivy. The plant is polymorphic, growing as ground cover, small shrubs up to two or three feet high, or a climbing...
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Global Warming, Fossil Fuels, Air Quality, and Health
Everybody wants to be healthy, and we go to considerable lengths to achieve the same. Preventive care, diet and exercise all contribute to good health. There are factors however which are beyond our...
View ArticleCell Phones and Cancer, Again
Like the Phoenix rising from ashes, so is the “cell phones cause cancer” meme. The current claim is based on a study done with rats exposed full body for nine hours a day for several months. The result...
View ArticleName Your Poisoner
There seems to be a newfound fondness for the Russian government on the part of Trump’s followers, both in the government and the population at large. Several officials have been less than forthright...
View ArticleExecutions and Midazolam
It appears that the State of Arkansas plans to perpetuate its inhumane misunderstanding of pharmacology – again. It has secured a supply of Midazolam for use in executing those convicted of capital...
View ArticleAmphibian Pandemic
One of the unfortunate hallmarks of the human condition is our purposeful or incidental reduction of biodiversity everywhere we go. Most obvious was the elimination of large herbivores from woolly...
View ArticleRenewable comparisons
Arguments against the deployment of renewable energy supplies range from the ridiculous to the sublime. from economic to aesthetic. From deceptive to just plain lying. The biggest lie, of course, is...
View ArticleThere’s a Reason for Regulations
In 1516, Duke Wilhelm IV decreed that beer can have only four ingredients: barley, hops, water, and yeast. This regulation, Reinheitsgebot, persists to this day in Germany. The absence of regulations...
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