Being a famous writer does not earn you a free pass from your kids when it comes to those teenage years.Roger Zelazny, best known for his The Chronicles of Amber series, had three children but to them he was just dad. One of his sons, Trent, reflects on his departure from writing and his return to it, in no small part due to the support of his father, who didn't care about the quality of what his...
read moreAre genetically modified foods necessary to feed the world's growing population and organic foods just too expensive and gimmicky? Or is it that 'fake foods' do nothing for health but are actually harmful? Jayadev Calamur speaks to US-based experts Kavin Senapathy, a science writer, and Vani Hari, who fervently believes that organic is the way to go, so you can decide for yourself.Link: Organic...
read moreI have never smoked a cigarette so I got no dog in that fight, but I have long wondered - 'why not just ban the things?'I get the whole libertarian aspect of it, people should be allowed to be as stupid as they want, and they are only hurting themselves, hype about second- and even third-hand smoke aside, but we are penalizing tobacco companies more and more each year and have created an entire...
read moreOrganic farming has had a pretty good run. read...
read moreDr. Oz has done a lot of things right recently. He has promised to stop calling everything a 'miracle cure' and after the cultural blow-up this spring, when a group of prominent doctors and PhDs nationwide asked Columbia to remove him, and then a group at Columbia criticized him in USA Today, he apologized and noted that the "Dr." in the title was meant to be small. read...
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