Widely Obvious: Obesity Spreads Socially

Widely Obvious: Obesity Spreads Socially

Joanna Dolgoff covers new research on how obesity spreads through social contact over at Huffington Post. I'm sure this comes as a huge surprise to those of us who have watched our…
Exercise In A Wine Bottle

Exercise In A Wine Bottle

Too lazy to exercise?  In a world full of concern about global warming and estrogen in rivers and anti-vaccine hippies trying to bring back polio, science has some good news for a change; even…
Bhutanese Medical System

Bhutanese Medical System

Bhutanese Medical System: The Bhutanese medical system goes well beyond the notion of medicine in the narrow western sense. It forms a part of their culture and tradition, in which "Buddhism" is the…
Some plants of ethnobotanical importance.

Some plants of ethnobotanical importance.

Name- Catharanthus roseus (Madagascar Periwinkle) (fig.-1) is a species of Catharanthus native and endemic to Madagascar. Synonyms include Vinca rosea (the basionym), Ammocallis rosea, and Lochnera…
E. Coli - Tracing The Source

E. Coli - Tracing The Source

E. Coli - Tracing The Source In a few words, most reports are false, and the timidity of men acts as a multiplier of lies and untruths.Clausewitz E. coli, or Escherichia coli, was named in 1919 in…