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Kool Aid Hair Dye

20 Mar 2017

Just mention 鈥淜ool Aid鈥 and my memories flop back to summer camp. That was the beverage we were served with every meal. And it was the same with my kids. They used to tell me about the "bug juice"...

Genetic modification: a thorny issue

20 Mar 2017

The ancient Greeks did not have a good grasp of genetics.聽A giraffe, they thought, was a cross between a camel and a leopard, and an ostrich was the result when a camel mated with a sparrow.聽A...

Second Generation Golden Rice

20 Mar 2017

Eating carrots really can make you see better. That is, if you鈥檙e deficient in vitamin A! Retinol, as the vitamin is also known, is absorbed from the digestive tract and is converted in the body to...

GMOs and Omega-3 Fats

20 Mar 2017

Mention genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and watch the brows wrinkle. People just don鈥檛 want the genes in their meals modified, even if they are not quite sure what genes are. Better just...

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