February 2015
Health
Feb 27 2015
Lunch and Learn
Every day is a special lunch day for students in Japan. Their schools teach reading with recipes and math with measuring spoons. Tasty, healthy meals are part of the curriculum.
It’s all part of shoku-iku.
Shoku-iku means “food education.” It’s a Japanese education...
Environment
Feb 20 2015
A Sea of Plastic
More than 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic debris float in the world’s oceans. Plastic bags and water bottles. Bottle caps, straws and takeout containers. Shoes and toys and cigarette butts. Fishnets – even boats.
Plastics kill a million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals...
Health
Feb 13 2015
Join the Herd
What would you bring home from a trip to Disneyland? Mickey Mouse ears? A t-shirt?
How about a case of the measles? That’s what over 100 visitors got at the California theme park in January.
Mickey fans aren’t the only ones catching measles. Cases popped up this month…
Science
Feb 06 2015
One Mammoth Step for Science
What if you could reverse extinction? Would you? Should you?
It sounds like a movie trailer for Jurassic Park. But it’s not. Modern technology is catching up to the 1993 film. Scientists can’t bring back T. rex. But they are looking at cloning the woolly mammoth…