Blame it on the Couch?

It is a serious and often heart wrenching topic for many couple, the struggle to get pregnant. Now comes one of the strangest twist on this complicated subject.
Leave it to Cal-Berkeley, but a recent study that your furniture may play a role in fertility. It turns out harmful chemicals found in electronics, furniture, carpets, plastics and upholstery fabrics may be why you're having trouble getting pregnant.
The Sun baked egg-heads at Berkeley 97% of us have detectable levels of PBDEs (or polybrominated diphenyl ethers) in our bloodstream. If 97% of us have it, how can anybody get pregnant.
If you don't want to dig through the academia-talk, here is a version of the story in the L.A. Times. Hey that's as close to an understandable write-up I can find.

How to Choose a Bottle of Wine

For some of us, a wine with an award taste better. Ever wonder how that bottle of wine got the ribbon? Wine judges decide. But how good are those taste buds? More discerning than yours? Maybe not. Here is a something that will leave a bitter taste in your mouth... only "10% judges were able to consistently give the same rating... to the identical wine sampled multiple times in a large blind tasting." That should give you pause the next time you take a sip out of that prize winning bottle of wine.