Archive for April, 2010

Major Recall: CPSC Recalls Thousands of Cribs

Major Recall: CPSC Recalls Thousands of Cribs

/ April 29, 2010 7:52 am

The Consumer Products Safety Commission has recalled hundreds of thousands of cribs made by Graco and Simplicity. With a suffocation or strangulation warning, the CPSC issued the recall after at least one infant death was reported in a Simplicity crib. [...]

Tasty Health News: Bring on The Jalapenos!

Tasty Health News: Bring on The Jalapenos!

/ April 28, 2010 4:54 pm

Eating spicy foods can help burn calories? That’s what a new study claims.  According to researchers at UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, capsaicin — a compound found in a variety of hot peppers — sends a message to the brain after ingesting [...]

New Study Links Chocolate and Depression?

New Study Links Chocolate and Depression?

/ April 26, 2010 5:40 pm

A new study links chocolate and depression! Researchers said today that overindulging in chocolate could be a marker for depression and that people who eat more chocolate are more likely to be depressed! The Los Angeles Times reports that researchers [...]

Gloss Find: LashFood Conditioning Mascara

Gloss Find: LashFood Conditioning Mascara

/ April 26, 2010 10:15 am

Everyone’s buzzing about Latisse and the amazing lashes you can grow with the prescription-only treatment, but we’ve found a mascara that does double-duty by using all-natural ingredients to fortify your lashes with growth power. Plus — it’s a great mascara [...]

Gloss Find: Creativity For Kids Create-Your-Own PopUp Book

Gloss Find: Creativity For Kids Create-Your-Own PopUp Book

/ April 26, 2010 9:36 am

I’m a huge fan of the Creativity for Kids line of craft products for little one– especially their Create Your Own PopUp Book kit. The set comes with two blank, hard-cover books complete with pop-ups to decorate and add, stickers [...]

Learning To Read With Virtual Teachers: Did a Computer Game and Nintendo DS Game Teach Our 5 Year Old How to Read?

Learning To Read With Virtual Teachers: Did a Computer Game and Nintendo DS Game Teach Our 5 Year Old How to Read?

/ April 25, 2010 3:48 pm

Last year at the video game conference E3, I met Hank Kaplan of Mentor Interactive. He told me about a new Nintendo DS title being developed by educators called My Virtual Tutor Reading Adventure. The idea was that the game [...]

Gloss Find: Silikids

Gloss Find: Silikids

/ April 25, 2010 3:42 pm

If you’re still using plastic bottles and cups instead of glass for fear of breakage, but also worry about the dangers of plastic, fear no more! Silikids, makers of silicone-based ‘skins’ for baby bottles, now makes a siliskin glass for [...]

Google Doodles: What’s Your Favorite?

Google Doodles: What’s Your Favorite?

/ April 25, 2010 9:12 am

The Google Doodles, the illustrations that regularly transform Google’s home page to mark things like holidays . . . famous birthdays . . . and notable discoveries and inventions are becoming a tradition!  For example, yesterday the Google Doodle was [...]