Phthalates – you may have heard this word floating around in environmental or health circuits. Nicholas Kristoff referenced them in a recent New York Times articles (here you go). When you’ve run across it, you may have ignored it, or maybe hesitated to learn more because it just looks confusing and scientific, or maybe you […]

Did you see the annular eclipse on Sunday? I was temporarily blinded from staring directly into the sun, but I couldn’t help myself. My crisscross stare-through-my-fingers technique didn’t work like I thought it would (novice astronomer). I can happily report, however, that my retinas have made a complete recovery. I hope. In Los Angeles, we […]