Month: August 2013
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What Is Wrong With Our Kids?
photo credit: Sean Dreilinger/Flickr I am an elementary school music teacher – a position which is commonly referred to as a music specialist. Music specialists teach general music classes – a combination of singing, playing instruments, learning rudimentary theory and music appreciation – to every child in a school. This year I was transferred to […]
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How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
Originally posted on Violent metaphors:
Update (1/3/18) I’ve been overwhelmed with requests for the shorter guide, and the email address below no longer works. So I’ve uploaded a copy of the guide for anyone to download and share here: How to read and understand a scientific article. Please feel free to use it however you… -
Julee K talks GMOs on ‘Food and Farm’ with Ray Bowman
Food and Farm Segment with Ray Bowman I recently did a segment of internet talk radio with Ray Bowman, host of the Food and Farm show. We talked about how sometimes misinformation is taken as fact on the internet and about how I, non-scientist-consumer, came to change my mind about GMOs. The conversation specifically focused […]
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Inbox An Interesting Place Regarding GMOs
This post is yet another about how I changed from anti-GMO to accepting of the science and evidence that indicates that GMOs are beneficial and not dangerous or toxic to eat. My blog changed from anti GMO to pro science. Notice I don’t say pro GMO. I am pro fact and pro evidence. I don’t […]
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Separating Wheat From Chaff At Miller Farm: Part One
In the next two posts I’m going to tell an Oregon farm story. It is also an American farm story, a homestead story, and most of all, a family story – one that could most likely be told similarly most anywhere that the US expansion efforts included homesteading. At the request of the family who […]
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Scared of GMOs? It’s All In Your Head!
While perusing twitter this morning, I found a link to this article by Maria Konnikova, recently published in the New Yorker: The Psychology of Distrusting GMOs As many of my readers know, I am someone who did totally change my views about GMOs. I started out very afraid of and against transgenics and biotechnology in […]
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Drunk on Drums and Bugles
Sleuth4Health has been silent lately. Though my blog has been quiet, my ears have been ringing. My eyes? Dazzled. I, Julee K, have been fully immersed in my summer obsession. No, it’s not GMO. It’s DCI. Drum Corps International DCI is a non-profit, youth organization representing various drum and bugle corps around the US, Canada […]
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