I’m way, way behind on pretty much everything, so to those who emailed this week: I’m not ignoring you, but it may take a day or five to dig my way out.
In the meantime, if you’ve somehow missed it this week, enjoy the satisfyingly dark and creepy trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:
That’s […]
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Rare Conjoined Twins Found in Arkansas
Why so rare? Because they’re barn swallows, and it’s practically impossible to find conjoined birds since they tend to die quickly. This set, joined at the hip, apparently survived early babyhood (birdhood?) until they fell out of the nest. The landowner brought them to the vet, where one died and […]
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The Environmental Protection Agency makes it almost too easy. These posts practically write themselves with an agency that claims this motto:
Protecting human health, safeguarding the environment
but actually:
A) ignores or downplays “human health concerns”
by
B) placing budgetary concerns over environmental health risks (illegally, too!) and operating under a veil of secrecy.
This long, winding road of refusal to […]
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Occasionally, I wonder how often I should revisit a particular subject. How many different ways are there, really, to describe asthma maintenance plans and debate the merits of inhaled steroids?
Not that many.
And yet sometimes life will whack me on the back of the head and tell me I need those constant asthma reminders, as I […]
Filed under: Asthma Girl, Asthma Meds, Asthma Moms and Dads, Bio, Children's Asthma, Children's Health | 3 people talking »
New Allergy Research: Kids Eat Cooked Egg, Overcome Egg Allergy Faster
Greek researchers fed 94 egg-allergic kids tiny amounts of cake (that contained egg, of course) over several months, increasing the amount of cake over time. After 6 months, over 95% of the children could eat eggs that hadn’t been cooked as thoroughly, and they exhibited […]
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Not so much with the *weird* today because these Colbert Report videos are too funny not to share.
You’ve got to watch this one on the value of human life and the EPA’s decision to delay regulation of greenhouse gases. Much hilarity and derision of Bush ensues.
*The Word* - Priceless
(via Climate 411)
And then I remembered Elizabeth […]
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First, with all the backlash after using the words brat, idiot, and moron to describe autistic kids, Michael Savage is standing by his remarks and refuses to apologize. Not only that, but he’s actually claiming credit for adding to the autism dialogue, as the New York Times reports:
But he said he was proud to have […]
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The Olympics are just a few weeks away now, keeping the spotlight right on Beijing’s air pollution problems and the Chinese government’s efforts to clean them up. Among the questions:
Will U.S. Athletes Wear Masks?
Apparently, the U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) developed and distributed some top-secret masks for competitors, but the decision is up to them. The […]
Filed under: Air Quality, Asthma News & Research, Asthma Triggers, Children's Asthma, Children's Health, Environment | 2 people talking »
H. Pylori Stomach Bacteria Prevents Asthma?
Kids who tested positive for this very common bug (thought to play a role in ulcers and stomach cancer later in life) were 59% less likely to have asthma. As the thinking goes, the rise in asthma in recent decades could be a result of over-cleanliness and early antibiotic use’s […]
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Dear Internet,
I’ve fallen in love with the American West.
So have the girls, although watching them apply their coastal Florida expectations to these rocky hills provided great entertainment. The Gulf of Mexico, for example, makes for a warm, wavy swim. I warned the girls that glacial mountain streams are much colder, but they didn’t believe me:
Some […]
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