If you buy a chemical-free product, you鈥檙e not getting a good deal. You鈥檙e buying nothing. A vacuum. What鈥檚 a vacuum? A space empty of all matter. And what is matter? Anything that has mass and...
Organic farmers are allowed to use a number of pesticides as long as they come from a natural source. Pyrethrum, an extract of chrysanthemum flowers, has long been used to control insects. The...
The best treatment for people prone to swallowing woo is a dose of chemistry. And one of the wooiest ideas out there is the one about alkaline diets curing disease. Gives me a headache. So let鈥檚...
Glyphosate is probably the most widely used herbicide in the world. It is also the most controversial. Why? For one, it is the herbicide that crops like canola, corn and soy have been genetically...
One of my pet peeves is the media jumping on a scientific study and making far more of it than what the study鈥檚 results actually demonstrate. The one that caught my eye now was the headline: ...
Based on their ability to discharge 鈥渃hemical bombs鈥� when threatened, bombardier beetles are aptly named.聽 Beetles are different from other insects in that while they can fly, they cannot do so...
