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Sun Sep 28

• Dietary Supplement Fact Sheet: Vitamin D: Greater amounts of the pigment melanin result in darker skin and reduce the skin's ability to produce vitamin D from exposure to sunlight. Some studies suggest that older adults, especially women, with darker skin are at high risk of developing vitamin D insufficiency [34,45]. However, one group with dark skin, African Americans, generally has lower levels of 25(OH)D yet develops fewer osteoporotic fractures than Caucasians (see section below on osteoporosis).

Wed Aug 20

• Silent spring | COSMOS magazine: Deep in the radioactive bowels of the smashed Chernobyl reactor, a strange new lifeform is blooming.

Mon Aug 11

• The science of hair: As the title suggests: everything you ever wanted to know about hair!

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