Category Archives: Science

How stress makes you stupid

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Kirsten

And what to do about it. From the article — quote from Nuno Sousa of the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute at the University of Minho in Portugal: [W]e’re lousy at recognizing when our normal coping mechanisms aren’t working. … Continue reading →

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Easy to ridicule . . . yeah. I know.

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Kirsten

For the past several days, I’ve been mulling an op-ed piece that ran in last Friday’s Wall Street Journal titled If I Don’t See It, It’s Not There. The piece is written by Steve Salerno, a former Men’s Health editor … Continue reading →

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Leave our kids’ cholesterol ALONE

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Kirsten

This topic is almost too upsetting for me to blog about, but I need to put my opinion out there in the hopes that somehow it might help influence peoples’ thinking on this topic. As you know if you’ve been … Continue reading →

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Fluoride in Rochester, Part II

Posted on June 23, 2008 by Kirsten

Jim Nugent, Water Quality Laboratory Manager at our Monroe County Water Authority, graciously answered the questions I emailed about our municipal fluoride policy. So allow me to share :-) First, the more factual bits. The county spends $88,000 on fluoridation … Continue reading →

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Asymmetric tail-wagging responses by dogs to different emotive stimuli

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Kirsten

Dontcha love the language academics use to title their papers? Saweeeeeeeet. lol The stuff inside this particular one is even better, though — as reported by the NY Times: When dogs feel fundamentally positive about something or someone, their tails … Continue reading →

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T-Rex for dinner!

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Kirsten

They’ve analyzed protein retrieved from a t-rex fossil and turns out — the dinosaur’s closing living relative is a chicken! Hooray! Technorati Tags: Tyrannosaurus rex

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The body electric

Posted on December 29, 2006 by Kirsten

I expected something different from Candace Pert’s latest book, Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d. For starters, the title’s a bit of a bait to the text’s switch. You aren’t going to find that promised Everything here. In … Continue reading →

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Mainstream medicine . . . catching up

Posted on December 21, 2006 by Kirsten

I hate to be the one who says “I told you so” but when the pointed commentary fits ;-) The news wires are carrying, today, this story about research showing a correlation between obesity and gut flora. They aren’t sure … Continue reading →

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Long live bacteria

Posted on November 9, 2006 by Kirsten

Here’s a tribute (by Lynn Margulis and Emily Case, in Orion) to the little critters. Some of the language of the piece is a bit much — you just can’t use “xenophobia” to characterize anyone’s attitude toward germs. LOL But … Continue reading →

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Things I didn’t know about Beatrix Potter

Posted on November 5, 2006 by Kirsten

She was a brilliant naturalist — one of the first people in the world to recognize that lichens are a symbiotic organism, for instance. As a woman, however, she was excluded from assuming what would have been, today, her place … Continue reading →

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