Strap in…..this newsletter will make your blood boil…. On Nov. 3, 2025, during the recent US Government Shutdown, the US EPA registered a new pesticide, epyrifenacil, for use as a “pre-plant burndown herbicide for use in canola, field corn, soybean, wheat and fallow fields,” AND, “for non-agricultural use on non-crop areas such as around...
Last week, I talked a little bit about several times during our lifespan, called critical periods, where we are particularly sensitive to input from our environment. Input like light and eye muscle input to the eyes when we are developing our depth perception in early childhood. Input like hormones and other signal chemicals coming...
Despite the US EPA rollback of regulations on numerous pesticides, the evidence is overwhelming that pesticides are causing harm to people and wildlife of all kinds, from the soil creatures that make our soil healthy, to the insects that pollinate our crops, to the birds that sing in our backyards, to our pets that...
Most of you have probably heard the phrase, “Nature vs. Nurture,” where scientists and philosophers have argued about what makes us who and what we are. Is it “nature” that determines who we become? Or, is it “nurture”? Nature here is our genes, our DNA that we inherited from our mother and father. This...
