Tom Molnar – Rutgers Cooperative Extension
500-year floods could strike NYC every five years, climate study says
Andra Garner – Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences
Seven filthy food habits and how dirty they really are
Donald Schaffner – Department of Food Science
In sports, who’s really ‘old’?
Tom Brady’s Super Bowl victory continues a string of big wins for aging professional athletes — and at 39 years old, Brady has said he has no plans to retire. The second-oldest quarterback to win the Super Bowl after Peyton Manning, Brady signals what avid fans and sports experts are calling a growing trend of older athletes — from mid-30s tennis icons Roger Federer, Serena Williams and sister Venus to Florida Panthers right wing Jaromír Jágr, who turns 45 next week. “We’ve really started to notice it in the last five or six years,” said Shawn Arent, director of the Center for Health and Human Performance at Rutgers University. “Don’t be at all surprised if … (we see) some of these guys winning their sixth Super Bowl in their 40s,” he added.
Newly named prehistoric plant connected to poison and food
A scientist whose work is said to have inspired the movie Jurassic Park has found the oldest known examples of a useful family of plants. The specimens are locked up as fossils in amber millions of years old…. “These flowers looked like they had just fallen from a tree,” Poinar said. Not being a botanist, he decided to run them by one at Rutgers University — Lena Struwe. “I thought they might be Strychnos, and I sent them to Lena because I knew she was an expert in that genus,” he said.
