Gladware, the type of food storage I have at home. I've heard soft plastics are more prone to have dangerous leachates, and this stuff is as soft as you get. (Creative Commons-licensed photo from Timothy Valentine's Flickr account) Nick Kristof's column Saturday dealt with Bisphenol-A, the chemical lots of people are worried about because, hey, … Continue reading Who are these corrupt scientists? Leachates nearly unavoidable
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Consumerism as conspiracy (and I believe it!)
Here's an article written by a professor in my academic department, Sharon Bloyd-Peshkin. I haven't yet had her in class; she's on sabbatical this semester. In this she's written the most complete, historically accurate magazine-format depiction of planned obsolescence I've ever read. And I've read several great ones. Planned obsolescence is, in my own words, … Continue reading Consumerism as conspiracy (and I believe it!)
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