Celebrate Get Ready Day today!

Hooray! Today is Get Ready Day , APHA’s fourth annual observance designed to remind Americans about the importance of emergency preparedness...

Where's That Then? No 41

I'm going to do a much longer blog about this place, but the fountain is the quite jaw-dropping centre (and master) piece. Until the end...

Potatoes and Human Health, Part I

Potatoes: an Introduction Over 10,000 years ago, on the shores of lake Titicaca in what is now Peru, a culture began to cultivate a species ...

Lemons: Your Bath, Your Teeth, Your Figure, Your Family

Is there anything a lemon can't do? (Click on images for larger versions.) Source: Lemons for Loveliness, 1935

Why do kids pick up so many infectious diseases?

Doesn’t it always seem like when there is one sick kid, within a week or so, every other child around has come down with the same sickness? ...

Flak Jacket

Inundated with Battle of Britain celebrations (celebs flying Spitfires, everyone making Woolton Pie) I turned to Flying Officer X. He was a ...

Speaking at Wise Traditions 2010

I'm happy to announce that I'll be presenting at the Weston A. Price foundation's 2010 Wise Traditions conference . The confere...

Protect Your Groundwater

It's National Protect Your Groundwater Day. Nearly 2/3 of Maine people get their drinking water from groundwater, so we have a large st...

17 Ways to Safeguard Your Heart

Meet Dr. Goldberg Twenty years ago, when Nieca Goldberg was in medical school, heart disease was known as a “man’s disease”―something most a...