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Consider the Fork: A Food Writer’s Cultural History

Our relationship with food is an emotional, primal, familial, and cultural one. It’s also one that’s been profoundly shaped by the march of history. From the hearth to the refrigerator and from the mortal and pestle to the Cuisinart, the journey humankind has made to satiate taste buds and nourish bodies is a winding one. […]

Consider the Fork: A Food Writer’s Cultural History

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FDA slaps new regulations on sunscreen

Keeping Away the Rays

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Environmental Health Note/Tea Sunscreen

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Emerging Science Note/SoyScreen

Living on Earth’s Maggie Villiger reports on SoyScreen, a sunscreen made from soybean oil and bran.

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Emerging Science Note/SoyScreen

Living on Earth’s Maggie Villiger reports on SoyScreen, a sunscreen made from soybean oil and bran.

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Health Note/Natural Insecticide

Living on Earth’s Jessica Penney reports on a new mosquito repellent that’s derived from tomatoes.

Tech Note: Bacterial Sunscreen

Living on Earth’s Cynthia Graber reports that deep sea bacteria can help make sunscreen more effective.

Health Note

Living on Earth’s Diane Toomey reports on Catnip, an herb that is known to attract cats, of course. Now researchers have discovered that it might also be a mosquito repellent.