Tomato Season!

I am not big on preserving. In fact, I’m not big on spending a lot of time on anything in the kitchen that doesn’t turn out to be dinner. But half-bushels of tomatoes appeared at my local farm stands this week, and that’s my prompt to empty the freezer to make room for sauce. Most…

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Aluminium in antiperspirants

This is the result of the current risk assessment by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). BfR President Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel: “Significantly less aluminium is absorbed through skin than previously calculated on the basis of the limited data available at the time.” BfR assessed absorption via the skin, i.e. dermal absorption,…

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Study: Anonymized cell phone location data can help monitor COVID-19 growth rates

Cambridge, Mass. – In March 2020, federal officials declared the COVID-19 outbreak a national emergency. Around the same time, most states implemented stay-at-home advisories – to different degrees and at different times. Publicly available cell phone location data – anonymized at the county-level – showed marked reductions in cell phone activity at the workplace and…

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