Harvard scientists recently concluded that adding fluoride to water can probably cause significant neurological damage in children. Yet many conventional dentists would work to keep the chemical added to the water supply for benefits to... Read More

The widely accepted estimate that forty-eight million Americans fish for fun may or may not be accurate. After all, a skeptic might ask, who’s actually doing the counting out there on the countless scenic rivers and lakes where the... Read More

It’s obvious that a lack of sleep leaves a person feeling tired and prone to impatience and crankiness. Less obvious is that a five-hour night of sleep leaves a person 50 percent more likely to overeat. Sleeping less than four hours a... Read More

It’s obvious that a lack of sleep leaves a person feeling tired and prone to impatience and crankiness. Less obvious is that a five-hour night of sleep leaves a person 50 percent more likely to overeat. Sleeping less than four hours a... Read More

With the growing shift toward eating organic, local food isn’t just a trend, but a fundamental change in the way we think about agriculture and our food, posit editors Irene Reti and Sarah Rabkin. For the roots of this movement, the... Read More

I loved Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad, seeing myself in his wonderful stories of faraway places, strange-looking people, and magnificent adventures. I wanted my own magnificent adventure, just like them. Jack Sligo, a fifteen-year-old Irish... Read More

"What the Heart Knows" is an upbeat novel, billed by the author as “small town fiction,” and the first book of Purl’s Milford-Haven series. The book opens powerfully with the appearance of the first of many strongly developed... Read More

A lightning rod for the imagination, German artist Blexbolex gives us People, a collection of silk-screened figures engaged in activities fascinating and mundane. A label identifies each subject; images on opposite pages create a... Read More