Archive for October, 2007

What's for Lunch

What's for Lunch

We've all heard the latest health advice: Avoid transfats. Eat more fruits and vegetables. You may notice those changes on grocery store shelves, but for many school children, their cafeteria lunch menus haven't caught up. This year, an effort to get healthy foods to the school lunch table is tied up in a much larger [...]

 
Lauren Sommer

Post on Oct 04, 2007 by

Simple things YOU can do to help the Bay

Simple things YOU can do to help the Bay

If you're like me, when you’re doing the dinner dishes you normally aren't thinking about the fate of the delta smelt, the little native fish that is one of several in steep decline and facing extinction. And yet for millions of Bay Area residents the two things–dishwashing and delta smelt–are connected. In fact, choices we [...]

 
Ann Dickinson

Post on Oct 04, 2007 by

Coral reefs- rain forests of the sea

Coral reefs- rain forests of the sea

Coral reefs, often referred to as underwater rainforests, are the most diverse aquatic ecosystem on the planet. Often mistaken as underwater plants, coral are actually animals related to anemones and jellyfish. A reef can be made up of many different types of coral colonies and be thousands of years old. Each branch or part of [...]

 
Cat

Post on Oct 03, 2007 by

To catch a sneak

To catch a sneak

Would a gene doper get an asterisk?The last few blogs I have been talking about people adding genes to their DNA to make them better athletes. The reason they're considering this sort of gene doping instead of just taking a designer steroid or two is that a DNA change will supposedly be more permanent, safer, [...]

 
Dr. Barry Starr

Post on Oct 01, 2007 by

 
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