Healthy and Simple

I love getting the New York Times on Sundays and devouring it, curled up in my favorite chair sipping a cup of coffee!  It’s a luxury to me to be able to “really” read the paper and absorb the stories rather than just race through and grab information from the newspaper while getting ready to [...]

A scientist was doing an incredibly complicated experiment involving lots of different liquid chemicals, some of them very toxic. He had been struggling with the experiment for years and couldn’t quite make it work. Then he fell into the vat and became part of the solution.

Scientists have discovered that ancient humans crossing over from Russia to North America on the ice bridge got lost a lot of the time. Apparently they couldn’t keep their Bering Straight.

I used to work with a doctor who did a stint in the local county hospital, San Francisco General. It’s an amazing place filled with extraordinary doctors, nurses and other staff. And they need to be, they see some of the toughest cases, the worst injuries and the most difficult of patients – some of [...]

Every so often you come upon a study that leaves you asking “and they managed to get money to do that research?” It’s not that the findings are so shocking and provocative, more that they are so bloody obvious that you didn’t really need to do a study to find it out – such as [...]

Growing up in Ireland and England tea was a constant part of our daily life, the kettle was always full and ready to be fired up to make another pot of tea – just in case someone stopped by to visit or something terrible happened.
We didn’t think anything of it – tea was just something [...]

If you ever have questions about science ask Dave Barry. He has answers. Not necessarily good ones, but they’re answers nonetheless. Such as these!
“It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person’s plate.”

“It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. [...]

I was going to write something fascinating and intellectually provocative but then I decided to take a nap instead. When I woke up I’d forgotten what I was going to write about, but I felt great, really relaxed.That’s why naps are so important, they help clear the mind.