The Scent of a Socialiate

Send to KindleTweet Publicly-traded beauty giant Estée Lauder Companies has inked a deal to launch a fragrance with socialite and clothing designer Tory Burch. EL Companies unit Aramis and Designer Fragrances has joined forces with  Tory Burch LLC via a multi-year agreement to license the Tory Burch fragrance business globally. This is Burch’s first move in the beauty sector. In a [...]

Researchers Study Link Between BPA, Behavior In Kids

Send to KindleTweet Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, evaluated data from the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment Study to evaluate if a link could be established between gestational exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) (often found in [...]

UK Entrepreneur Creates Texting Smoke Alarm

Send to KindleTweet The UK’s Matthew Newman has created a product for those paranoid folks like myself that check their oven and door multiple times a day to make sure the former is off and the latter is locked. Newman’s company, ELS, developed a product called Firetext, which with the help of a Lithium battery [...]

The Death of Marriage

Send to KindleTweet This post was taken from my prior personal site, originally posted in August 2008. What about modern society says that the union of marriage is a successful one? Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker, Sienna Miller, Silda Spitzer, Michelle Paterson, Halle Berry, Jennifer Aniston, Tea Leoni, Hillary Clinton–all these women had their husbands [...]

Why We Love Showtime

Send to KindleTweet What Showtime does is to glamorize the failures of contemporary commoners skirting the edge of normalcy. Nurse Jackie has a soul but serves her own kind of justice while she works doubles in a NYC hospital, fueled off an affair and a little nose candy. Californication chronicles the love and mistakes of [...]

For Women, Does Weight Loss Trump Romance?

Send to KindleTweet Food or sex? Most of us would like both but according to a recent study from Atkins, many women think about food more than sex. The diet company conducted a survey of 1,290 women in the United Kingdom and 54% responded saying they think about food more than they think about sex. [...]

DIY Skincare Device Market Near $1B Mark

Send to KindleTweet The business of at-home skincare devices is expected to reach the $1 billion mark in 2011, according to a recent report from research firm Kline & Company. The consultancy released a report entitled At-home Skin Care Device 2011: U.S. Market Analysis and Opportunities in August 2011, revealing that the market is expected [...]

Denmark Introduces Fat Tax

Send to KindleTweet Denmark has introduced a fat tax that will make food items such as hamburger meat and butter more expensive, in an effort to discourage excessive consumption of saturated fat(s). According to a Christian Science Monitor article, the move is aimed at increasing the average life expectancy, which currently sits at 79. That [...]

Researchers Use Banana Peels To Clean Water

Send to KindleTweet Scientists in Brazil published a paper in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research noting the potential to use banana peels as part of a water purification apparatus. Gustavo Castro and his colleagues explained that mining processes, runoff from farms, and industrial wastes can all deposit heavy metals, such as lead and copper, into water. But, existing [...]

Studies Evaluate Cancer Fighting Potential of Blueberries

Send to KindleTweet A recent study funded by the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council (USHBC) and the National Institutes of Health studied the impact, if any, of adding blueberry powder to the diets of mice with breast cancer cells. The research, which was conducted by Dr. Lynn Adams in the lab of Dr. Shiuan Chen at [...]