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POPSYet ANOTHER Joke by the CDC & FDA Articles Related to This Article: • 84% of sunscreen products are harmful to health, says alarming EWG study • The sunscreen myth: How sunscreen products actually promote cancer • Sunscreen warning has it all wrong: people need more sunlight on their skin, not less
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POPSWhat Does SPF Mean? UVB And UVA? If adequately applied, sunscreens with sky-high SPFs offer slightly better protection against lobster-red burns than an SPF 30. But they don’t necessarily offer stellar protection against the more deeply penetrating ultraviolet A radiation, or so-called aging rays. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/fashion/14SKIN.html?_r=1&em
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POPSSurge in Food Nanotechnology Worries Consumers Davies quoted David Rejeski of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, who advocates a U.S. investment of $150 million a year in such research by 2010, to benefit from an industry that will involve “15 percent of globally manufactured goods, worth $2.6 trillion, by 2014.”
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POPSCoral takes a hit from sunscreen In Japanese public pools, sunscreen is banned absolutely because if the number of people using the pool used sunscreen, the pool would get an 'oil slick' With the number of tourists swimming in tropical areas the same applies, but it's over a wider area.
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POPSNew Nanotechnology Products Hitting The Market At The Rate Of 3-4 Per Week While polls show most Americans know little or nothing about nanotechnology, in 2006 nanotechnology was incorporated into more than $50 billion in manufactured goods. By 2014, Lux Research estimates $2.6 trillion in manufactured goods will incorporate nanotechnology--or about 15 percent of total global output. Despite a 2006 worldwide investment of $12.4 billion in nanotech R&D, comparatively little was spent on examining nanotechnology's potential environmental, health and safety risks.
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POPSThe Tattoo Health Review It's hard to believe but apparently the FDA has never studied tattoo ink, how it breaks down in the body and whether the skin designs pose a health threat. The Newhouse News Service reports that the agency has just launched its first study, which could lead to regulations aimed at protecting consumers. Better late than never.
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POPSSunscreen: Health Effects Little (and disputed) evidence of negative effects of absorbed sunscreens. Might lead to feminization of bodily hormone mixture but this is not verified in other study. Don't worry about sunscreens preventing vitamin D production.
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POPSSunscreens - do they really protect agains skin cancer? The bottom line is that current sunscreens really do not protect against skin cancers and other problems with UVA. Also many claim to be waterproof or sweatproof, but there have been no guidelines for these claims. Better use a hat and cover up if you are sun sensitive!
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POPSMonitoring Everyday Nanotechnology cont'd: In this case, the issue is whether these tiny particles can penetrate the skin and have far-off effects in other parts of the body. Let's hope the FDA starts figuring out the answers soon.—Gregory Mone
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POPS"Henna Pecked": Beware black henna tattoos. (snopes.com) "Pure henna is green but dries to a dark brown or orange hue. Black henna is a PPD-boosted synthetic version of the real thing. Para-phenylenediamine (PPD) is used in these concoctions to darken designs and thereby produce dramatic black patterns. Black henna can make delicate skin erupt into blistering redness that sometimes leads to permanent scarring. The reaction can also spread, causing grotesque full-body swelling, itching, and skin sloughing."
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POPSSun, sunscreens & protection Products with the ingredient Helioplex — a more sun-stable mix of the sunscreen ingredients avobenzone and oxybenzone — seem to provide longer-lasting UVA protection, although they can be more expensive. Another certified anti-UVA ingredient, Mexoryl, currently is sold only as a moisturizer.
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POPSVideo Clipiversity is awesome, one small feature suggestion Hey guys, the new video format is really working well. I got one request for you. Can you take all the clips you reference and add a custom tag, or put them in a collection, or something? I want to be able to subscribe to "clipiversity" clips, or to browse through them easily without having to come back to this page and click on each link in turn once I've seen the video. Maybe that feature already exists, but I haven't spotted it yet. Along those same lines - have you considered adding a little box to the front page -- maybe a horizontal banner across the top -- which could contain announcements and communications from you guys? I feel like new features get pushed out without my noticing because I'm not really sure where to be keeping an eye out for them. Thanks all - fantastic work as always. PS guess you'll have to include blip.tv support for video clipping now, huh.
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