The Case Against Multivitamins Grows Stronger Plus 4 More Stories

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Shots - Health News The Case Against Multivitamins Grows Stronger Vitamin deficiencies can cause deadly diseases like scurvy, and other major health problems like spina bifida. But for most people, adding a multivitamin to their daily routine doesn't affect their health at all, studies say. Still, 40 percent of Americans continue to take multivitamins. Read this story The Salt Forget Golf Courses: Subdivisions Draw Residents With Farms Across the country, a new model of housing development is springing up that embraces the local food movement. Farms — complete with livestock, vegetables and fruit trees — are now serving as the latest suburban amenity. Read this story Krulwich Wonders... What's That Clinging To The Towering Wall And Why Doesn't It Fall Off? They look, at first, like dangerously protruding rocks on this towering, almost vertical wall in the Italian Alps. But then, uncannily, they move. What are they? And why don't they fall off? What are they doing? Read this story Krulwich Wonders... Why We Need Grandpas And Grandmas (Part 1) The idea seemed sensible: Send young elephants from a crowded national park in South Africa to an emptier one, where they could form a new herd and thrive. The problem? Elephants need elders. Without them, all hell breaks loose. Read this story Krulwich Wonders... One Man. One Cat. Multiplied I'm thinking of a man and his cat. A real man. His real cat. Then I'm imagining a bunch of world-famous cartoonists, Calvin & Hobbes' Bill Watterson, Wile E. Coyote's Chuck Jones, Gary Larson, Maurice Sendak — all of them drawing this same man and his cat. Then I'm staring at very different men and very different cats. Then I'm giggling. Read this story

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