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Missing Microbes Part III: Potential Solutions

Posted by Jeff Danner | Jul 19, 2015 | Common Science

This is Part III of IV of my review of Missing Microbes, How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling our Modern Plagues, by Dr. Martin Blaser, head of the Human Microbiome Research Project at New York University. Part I explained...

Missing Microbes Part II: The Plague of our Times

Posted by Jeff Danner | Jul 12, 2015 | Common Science

This is Part II of my four-part series reviewing the key issues covered in Missing Microbes, How the Overuse of Antibiotics is Fueling our Modern Plagues, by Martin J. Blaser, MD. In Part I, I explained that the human body has...

Missing Microbes Part I: A Partnership

Posted by Jeff Danner | Jun 28, 2015 | Common Science

This is the beginning of a four-part series about the most interesting and troubling book I have read in many years, perhaps ever. I am hopeful that reading these columns will inspire you to do two specific things: ask different...

What Makes Science Writing Compelling?

Posted by Jeff Danner | Jun 21, 2015 | Common Science

I am traveling this week, so this is a short column about an issue I have been pondering of late. Those of us who report on science in public fora such as this, are motivated by the hope that our efforts will have an impact, at...

Should I Get the Shingles Vaccine?

Posted by Jeff Danner | Jun 7, 2015 | Common Science

Late the other night, I saw a TV commercial for Zostavax®, the vaccine for shingles. It opened with a picture of a man’s stomach emblazoned with large and grotesque pustules, allegedly from shingles. (The make-up crew for the...

Single Stream Recycling

Posted by Jeff Danner | May 31, 2015 | Common Science

Long time readers may be aware that my father, Ron Danner, is an emeritus professor of Chemical Engineering at Penn State University. This is the second of two columns that we are co-authoring, both of which are pertinent to...

Paper or Plastic?

Posted by Jeff Danner | May 17, 2015 | Common Science

Long time readers may be aware that my father, Ron Danner, is an emeritus professor of Chemical Engineering at Penn State University. I am pleased to announce that for the next two weeks he and I are co-authoring two Common...

Sturgeon, The Living Fossil

Posted by Jeff Danner | May 10, 2015 | Common Science

During the time I lived in Philadelphia, from 1989 through 1993, just across the Delaware River, the waterfront of Camden, New Jersey was undergoing a significant revitalization. One of the centerpieces of this effort was the...

Kelp To The Rescue?

Posted by Jeff Danner | May 3, 2015 | Common Science

Yesterday I read an article on the Huffington Post entitled “Seaweed Might Have The Power To Make The Oceans Less Acidic.” The article explained that the increase in carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere since the...

Radon, A Fracking Risk I Previously Overlooked

Posted by Jeff Danner | Apr 26, 2015 | Common Science

Earlier this month, researchers from Johns Hopkins University published a study in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives detailing the increase in radon concentrations in homes in the state of Pennsylvania since 2004,...

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