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Jurassic Park Realism: What Do We Really Know About Dinosaurs?
Dinosaurs are hard to keep up with despite their extinction more than 65 million years ago. We discover a new dinosaur about every two weeks. Yet experts estimate only 28 percent of dinosaurs that...
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Hunger: An Intractable Problem With a Myriad of Causes
People starving or going hungry seems like something out of the past in the United States. After all, aren’t we always telling ourselves how we are the wealthiest and greatest nation on the planet?...
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Are We in for a Bad Flu Season?
Start saving up your sick days. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that the upcoming flu season could be severe. The agency expects influenza A (H3N2) to dominate this year. H3N2...
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Holiday Hallucinations: Can You Really Have Visions of Sugar Plums?
We’re all familiar with “A Christmas Carol” and the old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge who achieves enlightenment after a night of ghostly visits. But it turns out that Scrooge’s haunts might have been...
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What’s the Deal With Raw Milk?
Move over marijuana, there’s a new form of contraband in town. Milk. Not just any milk, but raw milk, which is simply milk that hasn’t been pasteurized or heated to a temperature that kills...
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The Science of Wine Tasting
Wine tasting can be an abstract art. As the pourer dribbles a tragically small amount of wine into your glass, you glance at the tasting notes. You definitely taste the dark cherries. After another sip...
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Can Meditation Change Your Brain?
If you had the chance to change your brain, would you? If you said yes, meditation might be the answer. Meditation involves sustained thinking aimed to relax or achieve religious or spiritual purposes....
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Medical Care for Minors: Who Calls the Shots?
In most cases, the law grants people autonomy over their own bodies, including a constitutional right to consent to or refuse medical treatment; however, for teenagers, that right is curbed by their...
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Vitamin Supplements: Are They Worth It?
We’re all told that a daily multivitamin supplement packs the same vitamin punch as a varied cornucopia of food. No preparation. Tons of nutrients. Zero calories. No wonder these little short cuts are...
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Foodie Flavor: The Science Behind Your Favorite Tastes
You just ordered a chargrilled pineapple steak with blue cheese ice cream. If the cost is any indication, it has to taste good. Right? You take a tentative bite. The flavors mingle on your tongue in an...
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Measles: Why is it Back and What Can Be Done?
Measles probably doesn’t make your list of top Disneyland souvenirs. Unfortunately, many unvaccinated visitors to Disneyland in California brought measles home along with mouse ears this season. It...
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Precision Medicine: The Future of Health Care?
Picture your Netflix homescreen. Besides some errant selections courtesy of your (ahem, tasteless) roommate, it’s pretty much a haven of your unique preferences. Like a doting butler, it recommends you...
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Climate Change: How Will it Impact Our Health?
Out of context, the words “climate change” don’t sound very scary at all. Here’s the context that makes it scary. The earth’s climate has been in flux since it burst into existence some 4.5 billion...
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Heroin: The New Drug of the Middle Class?
Heroin addiction is a scary reality for many Americans. It’s often an ongoing roller coaster involving several rehab stints, withdrawal, and lifelong addiction struggles. And it’s unfortunately...
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Superbugs: How to Fight the Evolving Menaces
Like anything with a life, survival is a germ’s end game. When it faces a challenge, it will adapt. Some germs adapt alarmingly well to the challenge of modern medicine. They’re called superbugs...
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E-Cigarettes: Should We Treat Them Like Traditional Cigarettes?
E-cigarettes are one of America’s latest trends. Since entering the United States over the last ten years, they have taken the smoking community by storm. To many of us however, they are still somewhat...
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Neuroscience in the Courtroom: Can We Measure Pain?
Some say a paper cut is the most painful thing in the world. Others would vouch for bullet wounds. Many men moan that a swift kick in the pants trumps it all. Who’s right? No one. Pain is notoriously...
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How to Regulate Gluten, the Modern Food Villain
Imagine ripping into a warm baguette with your bare hands. You owe its intoxicating fluffiness and delectable chewiness to gluten. A water insoluble protein found in wheat, gluten and its compounds...
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Who Owns the Moon? Space Property Rights Are Nearing
On July 20, 1969, man set foot on the moon for the first time in what Neil Armstrong famously called “one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” After these first dusty steps, people...
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Biomonitoring: A New Way to Look at Health Policy
Could your surroundings impact your health as much as your diet, genetics, and lifestyle? The field of environmental health seeks to understand how the natural and manmade elements of our homes, work,...
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