The Neighborhood Toxicologist

First published in the Montague Reporter, May 2008 I t was a simple enough design. Pink and white tampon applicators separated by blue mi...

This is, and isn't, a little off topic but as editor of Motherhood the Elephant in the Laboratory: women scientists speak out , I'm ...

A good way to hook students into the wonderful world of toxicology is tetrodotoxin. Sound familiar? It’s what makes fugu, or puffer fish, ...

I am listening to NPR’s All Things Considered – it’s a story about bisphenol A , a common chemical that many of us have heard about by now. ...

Whenever I have the opportunity to teach, I quickly learn how little I know. Maybe that’s what draws me towards the classroom. Besides th...

I’d like to share a poem written by a student who is no April’s Fool. Last week I'd asked my students to respond to an Earth Forum post...

Guest blogger, Dr. Cal Baier-Anderson, a toxicologist at the University of Maryland, Baltimore ; and Environmental Defense, adds her own th...

I’d been blabbing away for the past hour or so about chemical contaminants, imparting my imperfect knowledge upon my seven brilliant college...

Throughout my professional life, I have, for the most part buried my head in research. That’s what it’s all about - the science - right? Wro...

Toxicology fascinates me, and I love passing that fascination on to students eager to learn about how chemical contaminants impact their env...

I just came across a little blurb in this week’s issue of Science, noting that the EPA has finally made some decisions about regulating nano...

Here in the Valley, many of us love our local Atlantic salmon. We wait patiently watching as thousands of shad, and hundreds of eel pass by ...

The current Environews Focus published in Environmental Health Perspectives, Face to Face with Toy Safety by Charles W. Schmidt reviews in ...

High tech trash is a problem that just won’t go away, and a problem which all of us help (if you're reading this you're included) ge...

My friend Cal recently sent around a link to the online video The Story Stuff . After a bit of inter-e-mail discussion by those receiving t...

Just a brief note as I prepare a longer (and more depressing article) on farmed fish - salmon in particular. Hearing how local wild caught C...