On March 3, 2005 Whole Foods Market, which is the world’s largest natural and organic food supermarket chain, opened its newest, largest store and world headquarters in Austin, Texas. The creed of Austin culture is to “Keep Austin Weird.” It is the southern safe haven for un-Texan liberals advocating environmentalism, alternative lifestyles, anti-commercialism, and the fast growing trend of consuming organic food products over conventional food. So why pay the 40-175% premium on the organic stuff?
(Continue to Essay)

A young girl wakes up in the middle of the night. Terrified and alone in the dark, the child begins to cry and scream for her mother. Awakened, the mother runs to the child’s room to see what could have startled her child in the middle of the night. When the she enters the room she sees the horrified look in her daughter’s eyes and the tears streaming down her cheek. The mother immediately takes her daughter into her arms, as the child begins to tell her about the terrifying nightmare she had and how scared she was in the dark. In the process of telling the story, the young girl falls asleep in her mother’s arms. The young woman tucks her child back in and stays in the room for a little while longer to make sure everything is alright.
(Continue to Essay)

Everything you need to know about prescription drug development.
(Continue to Article as a PDF)

Nana was dying, but you’d never know it. Every morning she followed her routine of 20 years; hours before sunrise she’d sit in her rocking chair on the porch, watching the creatures of the morning scurry and scavenge. For hours, she’d rock back and forth, unblinking, unchanging, until two in the afternoon. That’s when Nana came alive; she moved into her element – she entered the kitchen. No one saw her during these times, but we were assured of her existence by the music of banging pots, the clink-clank of mixing spoons against glass and the sputtering of over-boiled water. By seven, the table was set for fifteen with candied yams, mashed potatoes, beans and sprouts, deep fried chicken and plantain, and all other sorts of ‘gourmet’ samples.
(Continue to Story)

View this insightful documentary film about the technologically advanced lives of engineering students.
(Continue to Film)

While considered a relatively routine procedure today, in vitro fertilization (IVF) once faced huge opposition. Like many major developments in technology, it was first met with resistance and fear. Scientists doubted that IVF would be successful at all, or if it was, that it would produce mutated monsters. Ethicists and the general public felt that scientists were playing God and that continuing research could only result in dire consequences. But those in favor of IVF saw it as a possible miracle procedure that could provide infertile couples with the opportunity to have children. Gradually it was grudgingly allowed and eventually accepted as arguments were thrust aside in the face of positive results and overwhelming demand for the procedure. With IVF’s incorporation into our society, the original controversy surrounding it has been mostly forgotten. Robin Henig’s book, Pandora’s Baby, details the strange beginnings of in vitro technology.
(Continue to Review)