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Monkeys Recognize Their Friends in Photos
Friday, December 4th, 2009And I’m not talking about you perusing Facebook. Monkeys can recognize photographs of other monkeys they know, which proves that they can detect differences in faces and figure out if they’ve seen them before, according to researchers. The findings were reported by researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center at Emory University in Atlanta. [...]
Heart attack rates fall 17% after smoking bans
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009According to two new studies on recent laws, community smoking bans have a dramatic effect on reducing heart attacks. Two separate studies each found that heart attack rates fall 17% within a year after smoking bans take effect. One analysis included 13 studies. A second analysis considered 11 studies. The studies suggest that public smoking [...]
Death rate for children under 5 declines
Sunday, September 13th, 20098.8 million children die every year before the age of five. 40% of them are in India, Nigeria and Congo, according to the U.N. children’s agency. Now new data from UNICEF shows a continuing decline in the death rate for this age. The trend has been ongoing for the last two decades. However UNICEF says [...]
Can Your Glass Cleaner Make You Sick?
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009This one is a good reminder to either not use harsh chemical cleaners or to make sure that the area is well ventilated. You can hit the link below for the full story, but here’s the breakdown. Guy cleans using glass cleaner and emerges from the kitchen, pale, nauseated, sweaty, and dizzy. Gee, I wonder [...]
The ‘Germiest’ Tourist Attractions
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009If you are on vacation and playing tourist, you might want to know about some bacteria-infested attractions that have made the list of the five “germiest” tourist spots in the world at TripAdvisor.com. And you may want to steer clear of them. How about a place where people spit their gum out and stick it [...]
How Safe Is Flouride In Our Drinking Water?
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009There’s a huge debate about flouride in our water. We have had flouride in drinking water since the sixties when it was thought to help with tooth decay. Modern research has now shown us that it can have harmful side effects and the amount should be lowered. Hell, we should get rid of it. In [...]
Chemical Free Swimming Pools
Thursday, June 25th, 2009It took it’s time, but the hot summer weather is finally here. That means we are going to want to have some pool time to cool off. But if you are concerned about all of the chemicals in traditional pools, then check this out. There’s a trend sweeping Europe which is now making it’s way [...]
Green Mountain Coffee Eco Gift Guide
Monday, December 15th, 2008The other day, I received a catalog from my favorite coffee company- Green Mountain. I was happy to see that they had put together an Eco Friendly Gift Guide, featuring their Fair Trade Organic Coffee. Green Mountain is a big supporter of Fair Trade farmers and believes that, “We are all more powerful when we [...]
ReJAVAnate Reusable Burlap Bags
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008I received some nice feedback on my recent post about my switch to reusable bags. One email from Doug informed me of a recycled/reusable bag called ReJAVAnate made from used burlap. The ReJAVAnate reusable bag program takes burlap from coffee roasters and turns them into reusable bags. The program also works with The ARC (which [...]
Bring Your Own Bags
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008I finally made the leap and started bringing my own bags to the grocery store. I did this a few weeks ago actually and it really wasn’t that big of a deal. Granted, this doesn’t require any monumental effort on my part but I still feel pretty good about it. I’ve planning to do it [...]
