Archive for March, 2011

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 of Wardrobe Anne...

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 with gene expression...

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 typically used in brown...

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 between these longer...

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 October to January,...