What’s In the Air Welcome, sulphur dioxide Hello, carbon monoxide The air, the air is everywhere Breathe deep, while you sleep, breathe deep It’s been a while since the musical “Hair” expressed its fragment of the sixties’ zeitgeist. And as much as its message of peace, love, and happiness appears dated in our present political […]
Fabulous Florida (10/25/12)
Like Nowhere Else What can compare with the Sunshine State? Here are just a few items, with the help of the news digest “The Week”: 1. Edward Archbold, 32 again proves winner of an insect eating contest, consuming more cockroaches, worms and crickets than any opponent. About to celebrate his victor’s prize, a pet python, […]
Fake food, Fake Drugs, Fake… (10/22/12)
Pork-Beef and Other Delectables Swedish diners were surprised recently to discover that 20 tons of beef were ingeniously dyed pork. Some of the meat originated in cash strapped Argentina where it was then routed by the Hungarian company Filetto into Scandinavia. The job appears to be have meticulous – an unknown dye injected by hand […]
The New Age of Anxiety (10/9/12)
The Future? One of my patients recently told me “I don’t worry about the future. I don’t see a future.” We have been living through a new Age of Anxiety. It does and does not resemble the times W.H. Auden wrote about in his 1948 Pulitzer Prize winning poem of that name. Auden had written […]
Organic or Regular? What Should I Eat? (10/2/12)
Fears of Food Scared? Fears of food are spreading like wind-borne seeds. On September 19th Eric-Gilles Seralini of the University of Caen reported that rats fed genetically modified (GM) corn devised to survive commonly used Roundup pesticide – or given small amounts of the pesticide – demonstrated markedly more tumors over a two year period. […]