Eating even moderate amounts of soy can cut a man’s sperm concentration in half, because foods like tofu and soy milk contain estrogen. And two hormone-like compounds linked to the consumption of soy-based foods can cause irreversible changes in the structure of the brain, resulting in early-onset puberty.
Researcher Jorge Chavarro says that he has seen this happen even more in obese men, probably because our bodies manufacture estrogen in fat.
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Save the rainforests first! – Wealthy nations will spend about $1 billion annually could prevent the emission of roughly half a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year for the next 25 years. That money could be put to better use if it was used to prevent deforestation in the rainforests of the world, which is one of the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.
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NASA’s Phoenix Lander spacecraft has collected a soil sample and had studied it in a chemistry lab on board the lander. NASA says they have discovered water in the soil.
This answers a major question about Mars: is the ice that is on the planet made of carbon dioxide or water? BBC News quotes NASA?s William Boynton as saying that this is the first time that Mars water has been “touched and tasted.” This finding paves the way for future colonization of the Red Planet.
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