Blog entries tagged chemicals

The Icarus Project

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 07:00:00 +0100

The Icarus Project has become an outspoken advocacy organization for the idea of "radical mental health. Co-founder Jacks McNamara explains how they define that concept.

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Radical mental health asks if being "different" is something that requires treatment, or can sometimes be recognized as just a different way oRead More...

Tektites

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0100

Small black balls of glassy rock found in the Dry Creek Valley may be remnants from a prehistoric meteor strike. Or maybe not.

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Bat Lady Remembered

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0100

More than 50 years ago, Patricia Winters got her first bat, and promptly fell in love with it. As an advocate for the small nocturnal flying mammals, she was known throughout the North Bay and beyond as the Bat Lady. She died of cancer at age 70 recently, but shared her enthusiasm and knowledge in an early North Bay Report from January 2006. This is a repeat of that reportRead More...

Cleaning Gulf-oiled birds

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:00:00 +0100

Near the mouth of the Mississippi River, oil soaked pelicans, one-by one, are getting cleaned up, fed, and returned to the wild. A volunteer from Sonoma County explains the process.

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Fish oil capsules have long been suspected of including small amounts of toxic PCBs, but a new lawsuit contends some manufacturers of the supplements contain far more of the banned chemicals than others.

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Apple Moths in New Zealand

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:00:00 +0100

While California’s policy is to eradicate the Light Brown Apple Moth, a local researcher reports that New Zealand has adopted other tactics to control the bugs, which have been present in that country for more than a century.

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Bruce Robinson — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Poisonings, both accidental and criminal, have been happening for centuries. But the science of investigating those deaths is barely a hundred years old.

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As she began to research the history of forensic medicine in Jazz Age New York, science writer Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook, says she was struRead More...

Farmworker Health Risks

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:00:00 +0100

California’s 1 million farmworkers are at increased risk for respiratory diseases and other health problems, according to a new report, in large part due to poor air quality where they are working.

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Bruce Robinson — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Much of the social upheaval of the 1960s can be traced back to four men at Harvard University at the beginning of the decade, contends journalist Don Lattin. His new book, The Harvard Psychedelic Club, does exactly that.

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Bio-converter

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0100

Sonoma County inventor James McElvaney (right), has developed a system to convert organic waste into energy and other beneficial byproducts, one that creates the energy that powers it in the bargain.

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Bob Hillman, McElvaney's partner in their start-up, Bioconverter LLC, sees their new technologyRead More...

Meat vs. Carbon

Bruce Robinson — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0100

There’s one simple thing an individual can do to greatly reduce their carbon footprint: eat less meat.

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According to Katie Palmieri, the public informatRead More...

Prenatal Pollution

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Exposure to toxic chemicals in our environment begins early in life--even before birth.

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Ken Cook, President and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group, is a strong proponent for a Kids-Safe ChemicRead More...