• Fitness & Excercise

    How to Know if Your Local Paddling Spot Is Exposed to Toxic Runoff Water

    If your local lake is near a highway, think twice about paddling there. A new study at Florida State University found when asphalt, sunlight, and rainwater mix, high concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), known carcinogens, are leached into the water. How worried should you be about toxic runoff water? Researchers are just beginning to draw conclusions, but suspect the picture isn’t pretty. In the meantime, go paddling on cleaner waters away from major highways. For access to exclusive gear videos, celebrity interviews, and more, subscribe on YouTube!

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  • Health Conditions

    How a molecule gets to the masses

    Good afternoon, readers. Have you heard the good news about COVID vaccines? That’s right. In the span of mere days between the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) emergency authorization of Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus shot last Friday to the initial rollout of said vaccine earlier this week, some Americans are beginning to get their first COVID vaccine doses. The priority, of course, is for the health care workers on the front lines and the most vulnerable Americans, such as long-term care facility and nursing home residents. But the real marvel to me is the very process of how a vaccine travels from the minds of scientists to the arms of…