Win up to $50 exercising your brain at Terra Sigillata
I’ve never properly acknowledged the commercial artist, Mr Brien O’Reilly of SaBOR Design, who designed the content-rich, scientific eye-candy banner in the masthead above for the Sb version of Terra...
View ArticleWe have a winner!
Monday’s contest to win $50 decoding the chemical and historical nature of the Terra Sigillata banner masthead got such a response that I didn’t even expect it. Amazingly, one entrant answered 4 of the...
View ArticleWeekend sex and drugs update
Most of last week’s posts were about music, so I thought I’d round out the holy trinity of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. Traveling this weekend gave me an opportunity to indulge in one of my secret...
View ArticlePsychoactive natural products
If you’ve been working in this field for any period of time, cocktail party discussions or talks with students invariably turn to nature’s greatest trove of biologically-active compounds, those that...
View ArticleMore on negative black cohosh results
As we discussed briefly on Tuesday, trial results published in the Annals of Internal Medicine revealed that alternative botanical supplements containing black cohosh were without benefit relative to...
View ArticleBetty Ford Alpine Gardens
President Ford and his family have a special place in the heart of Coloradans, in part for helping to popularize the Vail Valley ski resorts – the “Western White House,” as it was then known....
View ArticleNever bathe in rose petals
Such was the tagline of a review of Amy Stewart’s new book, “Flower Confidential,” as written by George Anders in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal. Ms. Stewart, however, is a danger-seeker. In...
View ArticleHigh school science project takes down Big Pharma
A few years ago, GlaxoSmithKline marketed Remifemin brand of black cohosh extract from their consumer products division as a hormone-free alternative in managing menopausal symptoms. But after reports...
View ArticleDukeResearch Features our Key West Botanical Garden Talk
Many thanks for some blog publicity go out to Karl Leif Bates, editor of Duke University’s online research monthly magazine, Duke Research, and co-founder of Science Communicators of North Carolina...
View ArticleEntheogen and hallucinogen, N,N’-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), identified as...
Welcome 4 March readers of The Daily Grail – please be sure to also click on the original post about the DMT article by my colleague, Laura Mariani. Thanks to Dave Munger & Co’s...
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