Emergency preparedness kits: Buy one or make one?

When disaster strikes, you’ll need quick, easy access to the right supplies to keep you and your loved ones safe and healthy. One of the bes...

Do You Look Happy?

(Click on image for a larger version.) Source: How to Find Your Man by Joe Bonomo, 1954

Grains as Food: an Update

Improperly Prepared Grain Fiber can be Harmful Last year, I published a post on the Diet and Reinfarction trial (DART), a controlled trial t...

The Cover Girl

(Click on images for full-size versions.) Source: American Hairdresser, November 1942 It's been a while. Did you miss me?

Of Course You Can Have Pretty Hands

(Click on the images to enlarge.) Source: 1000 Hints Beauty #7, 1956

The Egg Box Camera

Returning home yesterday afternoon from the far north eastern corner of the Dengie Peninsular in Essex, I saw this sign at the side of the r...

Where's That Then? No 22

How romantic, a castle on a hill in winter sunlight. But where is it? One clue might be that a big BBC Sunday night serial was filmed here i...

Winners of APHA’s 2010 Get Ready Scholarship announced

Six students have been chosen as the recipients of APHA’s second annual Get Ready Scholarship . The scholarship, which is awarded in conjunc...

Smokeless Tobacco Dangers

The Partnership for a Tobacco-free Maine (PTM) is the Maine CDC’s tobacco prevention and control program. Its mission is to reduce death an...