October 2, 2025 — The press office at the UNC School of Medicine wins the prize for clickbait this week with this gem: “Junk food can scramble memory in just four days.” That headline inspired some impressive creativity. From the seed of junk food to scramble memory sprouted headlines about rewired brains, disrupted memory circuits, cognitive decline, and brain […]
November 7, 2021 — Can we get a two-for-one deal on dietary and planetary health, please? The news has been full of dispatches from the climate summit in Scotland this week. Some folks are frustrated by too much talk and too little action. The costs of a warming planet are mounting. So the University of South Australia has a […]
August 23, 2021 — No two ways about it, we’re all getting a crash course in the uncertainty of science. It turns out that all those bumper stickers saying follow the science don’t mean exactly what we thought. Because COVID-19 is teaching us that the certainty we seek from science is not always there for us. Little more than […]
