Mark Bittman is a food writer who regularly appears in The New York Times writing about such things as how to turn pumpkin flesh into risotto con la...
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Mark Bittman is a food writer who regularly appears in The New York Times writing about such things as how to turn pumpkin flesh into risotto con la zucca or kobocha no nimono.
He also posts links to food stories, most of which turn out to be science stories of one sort or another. Oh his latest links post, you will find more than a dozen links to stories on school vending machines, raw food, FDA's inspections of seafood, a possible shift in the corn belt, a history of the apple in North America, Spain's Robin Hood, and the alleged supression of an Iowa State study on crop rotation, which is more interesting than it might sound, even if you do not have crops requiring rotation.
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One of the pleasures of working for the Tracker is that it's a perfect excuse to sit down in the morning and "read in," sampling the morning's stories, without that voice in your ear that says "Stop fooling around and get to work!"
Here are a few things I noted this morning:
...One of the pleasures of working for the Tracker is that it's a perfect excuse to sit down in the morning and "read in," sampling the morning's stories, without that voice in your ear that says "Stop fooling around and get to work!"
Here are a few things I noted this morning:
Insurance woes
We've read plenty about the difficulties of jousting with insurance companies to get reimbursement for medical care, but I liked a story in Science Times by a Suleika Jaouad, a young woman who was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia at 22. She's now 24, and she talks about her dealings with insurance companies with a wide-eyed innocence that reminds us, once again, how much financial burden serious illness puts on families who have insurance. "...
Update: Note links to two excellent blog posts mentioned in Ed Yong's comment, below....
Update: Note links to two excellent blog posts mentioned in Ed Yong's comment, below. They are from Maryn McKenna and Tara Smith. And note this nice post from Katherine Harmon at Scientific American, thanks to heads-up from Bora Zivkovic:
Staph Turns into Drug-Resistant Superbug on Farms
So I've removed "bloggers" from the hed, above. As Ed points out, the bloggers we would have expected to cover the story did so. Reporters missed the story; the bloggers didn't. And thanks for the help.--PR
Last week, researchers at the Translational...
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