Get Winter Ready with us this year!

Today is the first day of winter, so what better time to start thinking about what you need to do to prepare for winter weather? We’ve put t...

The Feast of St.Custard's

We've talked a lot over the years of this blog about ordinary objects suddenly taking on human characteristics. You know the sort of thi...

The Potato Diet

In 2010, I wrote a series of blog posts on the health properties of potatoes ( 1 , 2 , 3 ).  The evidence showed that potatoes are non-toxic...

Are you tech ready? Check out our new podcast on digital disaster preparedness!

The Get Ready campaign recently spoke with Amy Donahue, a reference librarian at the Medical College of Wisconsin, about preparing for a dis...

Horror in Newtown and the Realities of Life

Just to echo one point of many in the article, let's leave God out of the equation, because the sooner Americans face up to reality, the...

Down The Cut

On Saturday evening My Neighbour Who Knows What I Like rang. "Get yourself down to Foxton Locks tomorrow. They've drained them and ...

5 tips for healthier holiday eating

The holidays: that time of year when gravy and cookies are in a race to see which can reach your gut the fastest. With parties, frie...

Waiting for Cristmas

NEOADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY FOR ALL WOMEN UNDER 35?

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy might be particularly critical for very young women with certain early breast cancers because of biologic differenc...