Styling Hair for Permanent Wave

(Click on the image to enlarge.) Source: The Journeyman Barber, September 1940

What's New in Hair-Dos

(Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Dell 1000 Hints - Your Hairdo, January 1958

Flu U: Keeping campuses safe from H1N1 influenza

Heading back to college means more this fall than sorority rush, new roommates and visits to the campus bookstore. The threat o...

Weekly Update on H1N1 in Maine 9/17/09

Overview US CDC reported 1,380 hospitalizations and 196 deaths nationwide between August 30, and September 5, 2009. As of Sept. 6, the World...

Lung diseases

Lung disease is one of the top diseases in the United States today. Lung disease is on the rise worldwide. Factors such as air quality pl...

Stepping Out

It's so often the little, unnoticed things. A very brief trip into the north of the Cotswolds yesterday brought me yet again to Stanway....

Diabetics on a Low-carbohydrate Diet

Diabetes is a disorder of glucose intolerance. What happens when a diabetic eats a low-carbohydrate diet? Here's a graph of blood gluc...

How women's bodies have been transformed in the past 60 years...

How women's bodies have been transformed in the past 60 years... This article from the Daily Mail which compares bodies from the 50'...

Turnabout.... It Leads a Double Life!

"What fun!" (Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1943