Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Prescient video of the week: “Salad, the Silent Killer”

In light of recent events, here’s Vogue food critic Jeffrey Steingarten talking about his prescient essay on “Salad, the Silent Killer”, from his collection of gastronomic writings The Man Who Ate Everything – (everything except, it would seem, salad). We should have listened…

Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

Mobile phones and cancer – the latest non-evidence

The latest instalment of a long-running technology health scare finds the BBC web site telling us that Mobiles ‘may cause brain cancer’. This isn’t exactly new. We’ve been worried that mobile phones can cause brain tumours for a couple of decades now. First studies say they do. Then they say they don’t. What’s the evidence […]