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Toxicology 1
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
First published in the Montague ReporterFirst we hear about tens of thousands of picocuries in the groundwater beneath Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant, next it’s over one hundred gallons of water contaminated with over 2 million ... 2
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
The following is what I intend to be the first in a series of essays on the Evolution of the Toxic Response – a topic which piqued my interest after what could either be called a disastrous flirtation with the publishing world, or a... 3
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
Over the past two years the debate about bisphenol A (BPA) has become a quagmire where highly regarded scientists who once worked side by side, now sit across the fence virtually flinging insults at one another. You wouldn’t know t... 4
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
There was an interesting article on Synthetic Biology in the New Yorker a few weeks ago. I was able to skim through before relinquishing it to my husband who was heading off to Seattle and needed reading material. I didn’t have tim... 5
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
I’ve been a “lurker” on the TCE List serve – a gathering site for those impacted by this old industrial solvent and one of this country’s most important groundwater contaminants. It is an incredibly active lists because so many peo... 6
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
[Here is the second part of The Dumping Grounds, a history of ocean plastics.]An Earlier Voyage In 1971 over twenty years before the Alguita’s first voyage, nearly forty years before the recent Scripps voyage into the G... 7
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
Though I’ve got lice stories to tell of my own, I’ve been embargoed by the victims. So instead I’ll begin with my friend, Kate’s daughter, who discovered the unwelcome visitors two days before her first day of high school – a school... 8
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
In light of all the recent activity surrounding ocean plastics including voyages by both Captain Charlie Moore and Scripps, I thought it might be relevant to consider our practice (past and present) of using the oceans as receptacle... 9
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
Teaching college-aged students can keep you young or, make you feel really old. In this case I was feeling particularly old. My college advisor, with whom I’d kept in touch over the years, had invited me to talk about chemical cont... 10
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
For those interested in the LA Times op-ed Back to School with Less Plastic -- a teaching moment, I've posted a slightly longer version of the editorial below, along with a few links to reports associated with the editorial. For you... 11
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
Still stuck in the sunscreen limbo? Wondering which to choose - "chemical" filters or "natural" filters like nanotitanium? While we know chemical filters tend to be absorbed into the skin, should we be concerned about absorption of... 12
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
"Do you have a woodstove," the doctor asks as I sit, barelegged in my too-small hospital gown, and give the respirometer a feeble puff. It’s my second try and I beg for one more, surely I can do better. Woodstove? Yes. But it’s on... 13
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
Though I am not in the habit of citing newspaper articles – after receiving the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s weekly Integrity in Science Watch, I linked to over the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which over the past ... 14
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
Roughly a year ago one of the first studies showing that BPA, the known estrognic plastic used to make polycarbonate bottles, leached into liquids under extreme conditions of heating and rigorous washing that scratches up the bottle... 15
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
It took some digging, but the “Disney World Envirodisaster” article is now being replaced by a more circumspect, “They May be Behind the Times, but Maybe They’ve got Good Intentions,” article.The one week Disney Extravaganza organiz... 16
The Neighborhood Toxicologist
A while back I was invited by American Scientist to write my first ever book review. After having just edited a book that was reviewed (mostly favorably), I was nervous. What if I didn't like it? When reading books about toxics, esp... 17
Secret Ingredients
Former Seattle City Councilman Peter Steinbrueck won't run for mayor but instead will spend a year at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. 18
Secret Ingredients
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer broke the story of the asbestos poisoning of Libby, Mont ., 10 years ago. But with the final edition of the newspaper rolling off the presses tonight, we won't be here to report on the outcome of the W... 19
Secret Ingredients
Ronald Kuiper died last week, just one day before a jury decided that a maker of chemical butter flavoring owed him $7.5 million for destruction of his lungs. 20
Secret Ingredients
Until today, I really thought that Judge Donald Molloy's prediction that the W.R. Grace criminal trial would take four to five months to complete was a bit extreme. I based this on the fact that the testimony of two key government w... |
Earlier Voyage Dna Synthetic Biology Yankee Swap Tritium Lice Patrol Groundwater Beneath Vermont Swap Tritium Contaminated Discovered The Unwelcome Daughter Who Discovered Unwelcome Visitors Two Scripps Voyage Into Vermont Yankee Nuclear Nuclear Power Plant Who Was Heading Disastrous Flirtation Seattle And Needed Over One Hundred Beginning There Were Most Important Groundwater Voyage Nearly Forty Highly Regarded Scientists 
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