Number of words: 463 Killer Snails makes educational games designed to spark interest in science among K-12 students. The startup was founded in 2015 by Mandë Holford, Jessica Ochoa Hendrix, and Lindsay Portnoy, who among them have decades of scientific research and teaching experience. From the outset, the partners knew the “play-break-fix” model would be … Read more
Number of words: 633 Scientists at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, have developed a simple paper kit that can test freshness of milk and tell how well it has been pasteurized. Aided with a smart phone app, the kit can help ensure that milk is consumed before it turns too sour. Milk being widely consumed … Read more
Number of words: 3,521 “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” … reads the banner hanging on the wall of a mammoth building, just across the street from my office. This quote is by Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. During a British Airways flight from London to Washington DC in January … Read more
Number of words: 3,963 Human behavior has been shaped by technology ever since stone-tools were invented two million years back. Innovations that followed such as domestication of crops and animals and casting of metals created close-knit communities. Long-term group-thinking that started in such close-knit communities led to the Age of Enlightenment and then to the … Read more
Number of words: 57 Have you ever noticed that these so called kid foods are the most processed, chemicalized and sugar-laden foods on the market? Can you imagine feeding that stuff on your dog! I’ve heard many people say, “people food isn’t good for dogs!” In other words people feed “kid food” to kids, but … Read more
Number of words: 115 On one of my research outings, I went shopping at Star market in Boston. At the checkout, I stood in line behind an overweight, early-thirties father and his chubby 2 years old son. The man spent $200 on a head of iceberg lettuce and three plums. I’m exaggerating. He only spent … Read more
Number of words: 126 When the US Surgeon General finally got around to acknowledging that cigarette smoking is bad for our health, cigarette advertising was banned from TV and cigarette smoking advertising directed toward children was ultimately banned, including, for example, the Camel cigarette cartoon character whose image was designed to target children. But today … Read more
Number of words: 117 The science – fiction fat olestra, sold under the brand name Olien, is a rather mind- boggling example of a substance that was allowed into our food supply by the FDA, with no regard to human health and welfare. Olestra is a synthesized from sucrose (sugar) bonded to fatty acids in … Read more
Number of words: 409 Here’s where the long-term problems occurred. Since carbs are energy food and should be eaten in quantities that match a person’s individual metabolic health and activity level, when you eat more energy than you are currently burning you’ll gain weight. But Americans weren’t given this message. They were virtually badgered into … Read more
Number of words: 90 While primitive human spent many hours every day chewing raw meat, nuts, seeds, and roots, consuming 300 to 400 calories per hour, modern Americans bite, chew, chew, swallow, and glug entire meals in mere minutes. According to Deniel E. Lieberman, professor of biological anthropology at Harvard University, “the size of our … Read more
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