The President’s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies. The cancer panel is releasing a landmark 200-page report on Thursday, warning that our lackadaisical approach to regulation may [...]

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From a Neurology Now post on FB, which linked to the press release here. People with Common Heart Defect Also More Likely to Have Brain Aneurysms ST. PAUL, Minn. – A new study shows that people with a common heart defect may also be more likely to have brain aneurysms. The study is published in [...]

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I can find the most wonderful non-news on the web page for Houston’s only major newspapaper, the Houston Chronicle.  Mostly this is because Chron.com lists posts from their bloggers as news.  One of their best is kept by Kyrie O’Connor, the newspaper’s deputy managing editor.  I can’t imagine what her job looks like, but she [...]

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Despite all the grousing about 2009, there were a lot of things this past year to appreciate, like: (Oct. 13) The way they talk.  Carmen saying Cinder-re-wra and lello (yellow); David building wooden block fences for his hossies.  I wish I could follow them around with a recorder all day.  "You scrubbled in my book!" [...]

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I’m sitting in Matt’s new Honda Fit.  We bought the Fit when we realized he had been driving our 2001 Saturn SL without gear oil for, oh, who knows how long?  Ever since the babies came (and the rest of the chaos that happened after) checking the Saturn’s gear oil level had fallen low, low, [...]

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Houston Night Timelapse from Helsinki Films on Vimeo. (I saw it on Swamplot first.)

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It’s nearly noon but dark and quiet, with a cool rain falling outside.  C&D have been inspired to work on a project involving dozens of pictures cut from coloring sheets, workbooks, stickers (which have been applied to scrap pieces of paper, and then cut around) and coloring books.   Bits of paper, glue, scissors, and crayons [...]

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