| Mar 19, 2014 | Environment / HealthThere are more than 1,000 chemicals known to be toxic to the brains of animals in lab experiments. Yet we only know of 214 for humans, and just 12 for developing fetuses and infants, a recent study revealed. Why are these numbers so far apart? Is it because lab...
| | Environment / HealthRex Tillerson is mad. Fracking mad. The 61-year old farmer from Bartonville, Texas is another victim of the fracking boom that has invaded people’s homes and lives nationwide, from upstate New York to Southern California. Millions of Americans have experienced...
| | Environment / HealthIt’s hard not to love mediocre, bad, or even awful movies that portray a post-apocalyptic or utterly dysfunctional future. If you’ve watched Logan’s Run, Water World, The Day After Tomorrow, AI, or Soylent Green more than once, you’ll know what...
| Mar 18, 2014 | Environment / HealthHow bad will it get? The public approval rating for Congress has sunk to 9 percent, the lowest level since Gallup began to ask us about it. But your lawmakers are bound to get even more unpopular. Willing legislators have begun a scandalous relationship with corporate...
| Mar 12, 2014 | Environment / HealthThe Republicans give lots of reasons for their opposition to the Affordable Care Act. Only two really matter. One is politics. The other is money. More precisely, big-business money. Like Social Security and Medicare, the expansion of health insurance coverage is...
| Mar 4, 2014 | Environment / HealthOK, climate change deniers. This has gone too far. You’ve gone from just being annoying know-nothings to now posing a serious threat to an essential good that embodies humankind’s finest collaboration with nature: beer. It’s one thing for the science...
