Celebrate Get Ready Day and spread the preparedness message

How prepared are you and your community for an emergency or disaster? Not very, if you are like most Americans. That's why Tuesday, Sept...

Conflict of Interest

The U.S. National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) is a government organization that educates physicians and the general public about t...

Atheists & Dolphins

If you like fonts, babies, and have one that needs Christening, then I should think it's worth getting in with the High Anglicans in Wel...

Public Health and the Upcoming Heating Crisis

There has been a lot of discussion lately about the role of public health in the upcoming heating and energy crisis. Clearly, when people c...

Eating Down the Food Chain

Europe once teemed with large mammals, including species of elephant, lion, tiger, bear, moose and bison. America was also home to a numb...

Unexpected Alphabets No 5

There I was, enjoying a spectacularly good party on Sunday night in a Leicestershire village, and, just as I'm getting stuck into anothe...

Saharan Hunter-Gatherers Unearthed

The media recently covered an archaeological discovery in Niger that caught my attention. In the middle of the Sahara desert, researchers ...

Low Light, High Hopes

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun..." Keats knew what to say, and although we'...

Downeast Trip - Homeward Bound

Leaving the county, I felt a wide mixture of emotions. On one hand I felt shaken by seeing the dozens of graves of young people. On the ot...