Joel Salatin is America’s most celebrated pioneer of chemical-free farming – but if you want to taste his beef or chicken you’ll have to move to Virginia. He talks to Gaby Wood about why local is best and his role in the documentary Food, Inc, which attacks the giants of industrialised food productionJoel Salatin is [...]
Dr Wakefield is not the only guilty party in the MMR row; police harness the power of prayer to catch criminals; and the shadow secretary for universities uncovers a conspiracyToday’s top Society news and commentWakefield found “irresponsible” by GMC over MMR scareBen Goldacre: MMR scare – the media are equally guiltyDatablog: Measles immunisation – how [...]
The handshake is dying out, but what could replace it? The salute? Or how about the heart punch?The handshake, apparently, is dying. According to a survey by a brand of handwash, it is on the decline among younger people, who view it as either too formal or, thanks to a fashionable paranoia that a certain [...]
PARIS (Reuters) – Parisian haute couture designers mixed skill and science Tuesday in a celebration of the “petites mains,” the nimble-fingered seamstresses who stitch together the world’s most expensive evening wear.
There are three degrees of burn – but depending on where they are, they could all be serious✤ You have to see how much damage a burn has done before you can tell if it’s serious. Burns are classified according to how deep they go and how much of the body they’ve damaged. But it [...]
What is it really like to be ambidextrous? The ambidextrous mother of two children who also have the ability to use both hands equally relates her experienceHarry Houdini, Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Baden-Powell, Benjamin Franklin and Johnny Wilkinson were (or are) all ambidextrous, defined as being able to use both hands with equal facility. But [...]
It doesn’t look much from the outside, but step inside and you find yourself in a surreal Persian wonderland. The food’s not bad, eitherEarly in the decade though it may be for long-term predictions, I can’t imagine the next 10 years producing a more pleasingly curious or curiously pleasing meal than the [...]
More snow flurries are on the way, so Perri Lewis has devised a simple craft project to keep your hands warmA pile of old clothes next to my sewing machine is waiting to be cut up, dyed and stitched. There’s a T-shirt that is going to look much better with puffy sleeves, a white dress [...]