emptying

This column is the latest in a series on parenting children in the final years of high school, “Emptying the Nest.” Read the last installment, about why youth sports drive parents crazy, here.Over Presidents’ Day weekend, my eldest daughter took her 17-year-old sister to tour a few colleges in Northern and Central California. A part of me desperately wanted to go with them — my youngest’s first real college tour! But it was clear that they viewed this as a sisters getaway, and since I am known to proselytize about the…

he massive carbon footprint left behind by emails has been widely discussed by the media, but most of the time these discussions are exaggerated.According to Agnes Pannier-Runacher, the French minister of energy transition, reducing the number of emails that are sent and deleting them would reduce the individual carbon footprint. News stories have voiced these ideas as well.In a recently published paper, we found that some iconic digital activities, such as sending email, contribute marginally to the annual carbon…

Biochemist and author of the Glucose Revolution Jessie Inchauspé says tweaking your diet can change your life.Among her recommendations in the mainstream media and on Instagram, the founder of the "Glucose Goddess movement" says eating your food in a particular order is the key.  By eating salads first, before proteins, and finishing the meal with starchy carbohydrates, she says blood glucose spikes will be flattened, which is better for you.Scientifically speaking, does this make sense? It turns out, yes, partially.What…