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Royal Winnipeg Balle...

Yesterday, the Royal Winnipeg Ballet premiered its newest ballet – Wonderland, to the world.  Choreographed by Shawn Hounsel, with new musical pieces composed by John Estacio and Brian Current.  Of exceptional note were the costumes by long time RWB Director...

Airport Scanners ...

Airport full body scanners use a radiation called terahertz wave radiation (THz).  A Los Alamos National Laboratory study reports that these waves “unzip” DNA, which creates “bubbles” in the DNA’s double strand that “may interfere...

Caramel Coloring in ...

In mid February, 2011, the Center for Science in the Public Interest filed a regulatory petition asking the Food and Drug Administration to prohibit the use of two “caramel colorings” that are made with ammonia.  The “coloring” is most...

Global Warming Exten...

A team of researchers has recently discovered that the “allergy season” has been permanently extended or prolonged.   The research was published in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”.  It confirms a correlation...

Global Food Prices R...

The World Bank chief Robert Zoellick has declared that “Global food prices are rising to dangerous levels and threaten tens of millions of poor people,”.  The World Bank has released it’s latest data that reveals an overall increase of 15% from...

Problems with Compac...

Quite some time ago, the market was flooded with a new light bulb.  It was supposed to use a great deal less energy and last almost forever.  You know the ones – the cute, little swirly ones.  They were supposed to be so great, it spawned a new “going...