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That’s not all. If you’re a geek like me, you can click on additional tabs and learn more about the animal’s welfare and Icebreaker’s manufacturing and environmental ethics. The videos and accompanying text are pretty cool (and surprisingly engaging) actually, as Icebreaker lets you tag along on the wool’s long and intercontinental journey of becoming an actual baselayer or pair of socks. And seriously wonky: There are individual videos for replica Panerai watches every step of the supply chain: fiber, cleaning (France), yarn (Germany), fabric, and sewing (China).Now, all things considered, it’s relatively easy for Icebreaker to walk us through the life-cycle of their garments.

They make everything out of just one raw material that’s sourced from one island. Even so, I applaud them for their transparency and commitment to running a socially and environmentally conscious company. Of course, as long as I’m clapping, I have to mention Patagonia. The eco-aware-at-birth behemoth has a similar interactive feature on their website called The Footprint Chronicles, which lets you “examine” a product from replica IWC watch design to delivery. Although you can only currently track 10 products, Patagonia goes deep, too. I just watched a slide show about where and how on particular shirt’s organic cotton is grown in Turkey, and then a video about it dyeing and weaving in Thailand. Although, for the record, I skipped the slideshow about their distribution center in Reno. —Sam Moulton

With all the swine flu hype going on, its easy to forget that were also heading into cold season. Over at the New York Times, one columnist takes on the claim that garlic can help prevent colds, and finds that it just might. In a doubleblind study published in Britain in 2001, the article reports, the group that received garlic supplements came down with less replica Gucci watch colds than the placebo group, and had a quicker recovery time. Although the research is limited, it appears that garlic certainly cant hurt when it comes to cold season. Lisa Lombardi