If you're eating genetically modified food, do you want to know?

By dwray in The nature of things

So between soy beans, corn, sugar beets and canola, you've probably been eating plenty of genetically modified food for years. The question is, do you want or need to know about it? In California, there has been a debate for ...

If it seems like you're seeing more flares, it's because you are

By dwray in The nature of things

Since the Eagle Ford Shale play started booming, I'll bet you've noticed the flares. It's an unsettling moment, glancing out the car window and seeing pillars of fire dotting the rolling plains. Oil companies put in the flares to burn ...