If you’re trying to sneak more vegetables into your—or your kid’s—diet, swapping regular potato chips for veggie chips or sticks may seem like a healthy substitution. But nutrition experts say some of these ostensibly good-for-you snacks are just junk food in disguise.
“Those veggie sticks are super popular at my six-year-old’s kindergarten, but they’re really no better than potato chips,” says Liz Weinandy, a staff dietitian at the Ohio State University Medical Center. Read More...
In 1962, the teen queen finally got a palace. Well, sort of. The first Barbie's Dream House released by Mattel left a few things to be desired. A cardboard foldout, it was modest yet hip and absolutely nothing compared with what was to come. By 1983, Barbie's Dream House had evolved into an elegant three-story mansion, complete with a working elevator, garage and swimming pool. Later versions of the Barbie Three-Story Dream House came standard with a song-playing intercom, sizzling stove, working doorbell, flush toilet, shower, washer and dryer. Read More...
In early 2005, after quitting her job in a technology consulting firm, Christina Lampe-Onnerud founded Boston-Power. She then headed to China, ponying up her own money to test-run designs of a more muscular lithium-ion battery that could sustain 1,000 charge-and-discharge cycles (vs. the standard few hundred) with no loss of cell capacity over time. A couple of months later, she had a viable product "the next-generation lithium-ion battery," says CEO Lampe-Onnerud and shortly after HP as a partner. Read More...