What Big Pharma isn’t Telling You about Antibiotic Use — And Why You Care to Know

What if the pounds we pack on during the holidays are just as much a product of the antibiotics we are likely to take during cold/flu season as the foods we eat? Does your doctor know? Has your pharmacist informed you of the antibiotic-weight gain risk? Is Big Pharma covering something up?

So Far From Green, So Close to Brown: Why An Alternative Energy Future is Slow in Coming

Quick! What type of world did you imagine when you were a kid? Did you foresee yourself darting about in a hovercraft much like the cartoon family in the Jetsons? Vacationing on the moon? A lean, mean greener world? How is it that we find ourselves these many years, decades even, down the road and …

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Thank the DOE: Bed, Bath & Beyond isn’t the only Recipient of Radioactive Products in US

In the scare-of-the-week news story we learn that Bed, Bath & Beyond may have distributed radioactive tissue holders across the country. It allegedly started when just four metal tissue box covers buried in a transport truck set off radiation detectors installed after 911 to protect us from a terrorist threat. Who knew truck-stop Geiger counters …

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