As a health conscious, green-minded consumer I buy organic food whenever I can, but now I’m having a rethink, writes Julia Stephenson

Many small artisan farmers produce as high a standard of meat and foodstuffs as their organic counterparts yet have decided to eschew the bureaucracy and expense that acquiring organic certification entails.

Some farmers, such as Peter Greig, who runs the award-winning Pipers farm in Devon, argue that organic certification doesn’t necessarily guarantee high quality.  Here he explains why he and his wife have decided not to go organic.

Paul Newman, a screen legend with a sideline in political idealism, died on 26 September 2008.

He will be remembered not only for his Greek god good looks and directing talent but also for ‘Newman’s Own’, the food company which he started in the basement of his home as a bit of a joke.

In a recent interview, Daniel Radcliffe talked about his experience of living with dyspraxia, sometimes dismissively called 'clumsy child syndrome'.

The condition, which results from a complex neurological disorder, causes problems with coordination and simple tasks.  However, it is regularly misunderstood, and sufferers are often stigmatised as being lazy or clumsy.

Using the powerful combination of the VLT and a NASA X-ray satellite,  intriguing patterns of rapid brightness changes have been found in two black holes in the Milky Way

These patterns provide insight into the way energy is released in the immediate environments of black holes, and support theories in which magnetic fields play important roles in regulating their energy flows.

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Amazing! Mars has water, clouds and snow! Not quite the full skiing holiday you understand and I know Mars does look a bit bleak, writes Phil Becque. But this is great news for Mars lovers. Click on the image to see the glorious animation.

This sequence combines 32 images of clouds moving eastward across a Martian horizon. The Surface Stereo Imager on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander took this set of images on 18 Sept 2008, during early afternoon hours of the 113th Martian day of the mission.

Jason McElwain is autistic and didn't learn to talk until he was five. His big passion is  basketball and he served as manager and motivator for his High School team.

In 2006, aged seventeen, the team's Coach allowed him to suit up and join the game for the last four minutes. The result blew everyone's mind!

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