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“Excuse me waiter, there are chemicals in my soup.”

My latest article for the Lake County Record-Bee Green Scene page: Regular readers of the Timberati blog or the Green Chain column know that I am not chemo-phobic. In fact, I enjoy eating chemicals because all foods are chemicals. To be afraid of chemicals is to fear our world. We cannot escape chemicals; they surroundContinue reading ““Excuse me waiter, there are chemicals in my soup.””

For Mice and Men, Dose Doth Make the Poison

My latest Green Chain column in today’s Lake County Record-Bee: Every day, I make my wife and myself a cup of coffee. Should I be arrested for spousal abuse? I am serving her a phenol-laced liquid, containing 826 volatile chemical substances, 16 of which are known by the state of California to cause cancer. OneContinue reading “For Mice and Men, Dose Doth Make the Poison”