Chemicals used as flame retardants are present as environmental pollutants all around the globe, including remote sites in Indonesia, Nepal and Tasmania, where no one wears clothes that are treated with these chemicals.

Researcher Amina Salamova says, "These findings illustrate further that flame retardants are ubiquitous pollutants and are found all around the world, not only in biota and humans but also in plants."
read more

I’ve long been amused by the way seemingly hard-headed men seem to go slightly crazy when it comes to football. We have a friend who’s an internationally-known lawyer who has begged Whitley not to watch NFL games when his favorite team is playing because "they always lose when you do."

His son, in turn, begs HIM not to watch when HIS OWN favorite team is playing.

I recently saw a cartoon where the main character decided to watch a game where a team he didn’t like, but which was competing with a team he DID like, was playing so that he could work some "reverse karma" on it.
read more

We don’t hear much about Mad Cow Disease anymore (thank goodness), but scientists are studying the human form (Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease) because it has similarities to diseases that affect millions, such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS) (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to these shows).
read more