Nancy Langston's superb new book explores how endrocine-disrupting chemicals, especially synthetic estrogen (DES) have affected human bodies in the decades since World War II. Exposing the deep problems with American regulatory agencies, how cultural conceptions about gender have shaped our response to and use of...
Author: Erik Loomis
So it seems that Rod Lurie is remaking Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs. I have deep reservations about this. I love Sam Peckinpah. I will defend many of his movies (OK,.
So as all of you have seen from his 100 comments on the matter, Joe from Lowell disagreed with my slamming of Obama for backing off of tightening clean air.
Obama's decision to not implement stricter clean air standards might be the final blow to anyone who had hopes for him as an environmental president. While he campaigned on promoting clean energy and fighting climate change, he's had to scale much of that back in...
Like most of New England outside of Massachusetts, Vermont has a very weak history of prominent politicians. I believe the state has contributed all of 1 person to a cabinet.
This weekend begins another college football season. There are lots of you who hate college football. And there's good reason to do so. The NCAA is a hopeless organization, measuring.
This issue came up in the comments to a post from earlier in the week. Before you answer that question with the obvious no, note that this was a real issue in American history. John Svan was a Finnish immigrant to the United States. He...
As will become even clearer over time as I continue to write here, I can be pretty obsessive about things. One of those things is museums. Museums really affect me.
Professors and students at Southwestern University in Texas, where I taught for 3 years, have developed an interesting study that was recently presented at the American Sociological Association and covered.
A lot of books about environmental problems tend to follow a pattern that looks something like this: 1. Talk about how screwed up everything is, going into detail about a variety of different specific issues. 2. Interview people working on new technologies that could help...
Adam Gopnik is upset that his Cape Cod vacation got interrupted by a storm that didn't live up to the worst case scenario: Obviously, this was a big storm with.
You know what I didn't grow up with in Oregon? Hurricanes. Or tornadoes. Or floods. Or droughts. Or blizzards. Or below zero temperatures. Just soft rain, fog, and summer sun..