This was interesting:

The notion that diet may influence the risk of developing skin cancer seems not to hold up under investigation, Australian researchers report.

According to their study in the journal BMC Cancer, high levels of dietary fat do not increase --and may decrease -- the risk of skin cancer.

Pass the bacon.

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With the heat comes the aversion to hot drinks, which is a serious "duh" for most people, but we've all learned I can be a little slow on the uptake. This swiftlessness was underlined last weekend when my mom and I went for afternoon tea in the name of research and mother-daughter bonding.

Now, whiling away several hours at St. James sounds lovely in theory, but it wasn't until we were sitting down with the first pot that I realized it was hot, I was hot and the tea? That tea was never going to live with an ice cube in perfect harmony.

I sweated through two hours and three pots, but lesson learned. Later that evening I bounced the idea of iced coffee off Adam. "Never work," he said. "Can't get it sweet enough. I can dump a pound of sugar into the pot and it just kind of sits at the bottom and yuck."

Which is how we've come to have a jar of simple syrup sitting in the fridge next to a pitcher of cold coffee. Should you be wondering.