Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of a vast and mysterious kingdom – the fungi – and they hold a world of wonder waiting to be explored. Mushrooms offer a glimpse into a hidden ecosystem with the potential to revolutionise our plates, our health, and even our planet. The Mushroom Extravaganza There are the classic button…
It is extremely common for adults to wake up in the morning a little achy and stiff, and still a bit tired. The night before might be a little blurry, but why would your vision be blurry after a normal night’s sleep? Turns out, dry eyes and slightly blurry vision in the morning is also a very common…
The Digital Age is said to have officially begun in the mid-20th century when the world’s largest economies shifted from traditional industries to an economy based on the latest information technology. The internet as we know it became public in 1993, with desktop computers becoming fairly common later that decade, followed in short time by laptop computers and…
At some point in all our lives we’ll hear our doctor say, “You know, you really should be taking a daily multivitamin.” The simple fact is that as people age, they tend to reduce their overall consumption and absorption of necessary vitamins and minerals. In fact, fifty percent of older adults have a vitamin and mineral intake…
Retinopathy simply refers to damage to the retina caused by disease. The retina is the layer of tissue and cells at the back of the eye that captures light and transmits that light as images to the brain. Any damage to the retina via injury or disease can and often leads to vision impairment or complete vision loss. Disease that…
An Aspirin A Day, Or Just Get Your Eyes Checked If you were to run a couple of miles every day for a week, you might notice your legs are particularly sore come Saturday. You might even notice they’re pretty sore after that first run! You’ve been around the block enough times to know when…
If you could see the world from the standpoint of your eye alone, it might look like the night sky during a meteor shower with a thousand glittering objects of various size and substance flying at you from every conceivable direction and no hands to put up to protect yourself. Instead of shooting stars, though,…
How smart would your smartphone really be if only people with 20/20 vision could use it? Turns out, the designers of the most ubiquitous smartphone technologies out there, the Android and Apple iPhone, thought a smartphone like that wouldn’t be very smart at all. From its inception, the smartphone has always had accessibility built right into the…
Summer, the season when everyone gloriously basks in the sun, soaks up that unparalleled pond life, and runs for cover when those tempestuous summer thunderstorms come barreling through. It’s also a time of rainbows! Whether or not Pride Month was deliberately meant to be celebrated at the beginning of the rainbow season, that is serendipitously the way…
Think. of winter in cold, crisp days and frigid nights, snow covered trees and icy roads, shorter days, longer nights, sleigh bells jingling, studded tires stuttering, and crackling fires in woodstove. Battling the cold with layers of wool and winter boots is basically religion in our region, but aren’t you forgetting something?? Those cold, windswept days…