Microbes You Can Eat Vol. 1: Kombucha and Jun Tea
If you’ve browsed the refrigerated section of your local natural foods store lately, you probably noticed a big case full of kombucha where the...
Varicella-Zoster Strikes Again
I had chicken pox when I was 8 years old. This was before there was a vaccine for varicella zoster, the virus that causes...
Creepy costumes: radioactive Madame Curie
This year for Halloween, why not celebrate Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize? The good news (for you, not for...
The movie “Contagion” is so realistic it’s boring
I have been looking forward to seeing the movie Contagion since it came out last year and I finally got to see it last...