Pollen and junk.

I live in Tennessee and our pollen count is EXTREMELY high this time of year like seriously cars are yellow! So today I am going to talk about bee pollen and its uses in holistic medicine. My grandmother swears that this is the cure for allergies. Well, I am here to settle this. Based on plant biology, we know that bee pollen will not help your allergies. Sorry. *hands you a klennex*

Now, I will give you the science-y reasoning behind this, you know the pollen you see on your cars and such occurs by wind-pollinated plants. This means that there "sperm" is passed by wind compared to bee pollinated which is passed by bees. So the bee pollen will not help your allergies.

Cell phones causing cancer??!

Alright so I have been seeing on Facebook this thing about keeping your phone under your pillow will increase your risk for cancer?! Well as some people might know, I am a Molecular Biology Major and I am calling bs! Yes bs my friends! If you are like me (no, I don't mean being all geeky and science-y like me?), then you have to have your phone under your pillow or there is no way you are waking up for the (insert boring job, school, or miscellaneous activity that you have to do before 10 o'clock in the morning). I personally would be super late for class everyday if my phone wasn't underneath my head.

 Now, to give a little bit of scientific detail.....well we have these things called ionizing radiation, which we get from x-rays and UV rays. And cell phones use radio waves, which are non-ionizing radiation. The frequencies that we get from things like microwaves and radio waves do not cause an increase in the likelihood of Cancer. Soooooo, for the jest of this post, CELL PHONES DO NOT CAUSE CANCER. Oh and just by the way, tanning beds use UV lights just remember that when you are getting those precious tans. :)