So, Lena read this article today about consumerism and ways of keeping your level of home owned crap down to a minimum. Since we moved out of the country 6 months ago and moved back last month, we’ve gone through 2 massive get-rid-of-everything-non-essential purges. Now that we are in a state of living out of [...]

This is absolutely amazing. I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that the key to fighting just about every deadly disease we know of is probably as simple as eating fresh, tasty foods. William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed [...]

As always, cracked cracks me up with good old facts. My favorite bit here: Vitamin C has been touted as a cure-all for everything from preventing colds to curing cancer. The latter claim was popularized by Linus Pauling and eaten up by people who forgot that he got a Nobel Prize in chemistry and not [...]

This is freaking awesome. It’s only a matter of time before we have custom house pets, bacteria that cleans air, water and anything else we want, in fact, bacteria that creates just about any chemical element or structure that we want. The possibilities are pretty wild. The part about watermarks in the DNA is impressive. [...]

Disturbing images and information about the state of the oceans and predictions for the future. I hope my daughter can see the ocean as beautiful as I’ve seen it in my life. In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated, polluted, with indicators [...]