Francisco Miranda ...but he did have to wear one of those funny little blue face masks for a while. San Francisco troubadour Prophet traveled down to Mexico City in recent months to record a new album that's set to come out this fall. Once south of the border, Prophet found plenty of material to write about, encountering both the swine flu outbreak and a 6.4 earthquake. The guitarist and songwriter sounds to now be in good health and good spirits, however, soldiering on in making a "political al
i,max via FlickrGrist has a nicely conspiratorial analysis (*cue X-Files music*) of the current investigations into the origin of the swine flu epidemic. Among the highlights:
The World Health Organization helped author a paper for Science that pinpointed the likely source of the swine flu as La Gloria, a picturesque pig-farming village in the Veracruz Mountains. But the World Health Organization isn't doing any research in La Gloria itself. Instead, the town is filling up with scientists funde
Now with less bullshit! ​Sorry folks: turns out eating more chocolate cereal may not prevent you from getting the flu. Last week, SF Weekly reported that San Francisco's city attorney Dennis Herrera cracked down on Snap, Crackle, and Pop and sent a letter
to Kellogg's CEO David Mackay demanding to see the science behind marketing claims that Cocoa Krispies can "Support Your Child's
Immunity," as it reads on the box. Herrera expressed
concerns that the company was playing into recent fears abou
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