Oxygen is critical for life and that also makes is susceptible to chicanery. If oxygen is so essential that the brain is permanently injured after just four minutes of deprivation, then surely more...
To the surprise of many, however, cancer cells are defective at producing the very fuel they need to grow and spread, but manage to overcome the innate 鈥渄isability鈥� and out-compete normal healthy...
In 2001, a Belgian physician experienced two episodes of bitter, metallic taste that lasted for several days and noted that both had occurred after he had eaten pine nuts. He mentioned this to a...
Shadow puppetry can be beautiful to look at, but when it鈥檚 happening inside our eyeballs, it鈥檚 an annoyance. One of the banes of getting older is the appearance of apparitions in our vision. In...
What are children introduced to, on average, at the age of four and a half months? Your answer will vary depending on where you are from. In Finland,聽the answer聽is the sauna.
Sugar is sweet and sticky.聽聽That鈥檚 a fact.聽聽In fact, during the reign of Edward the Confessor in the early eleventh century, "ale tasters" were employed to check on the work of brewers.聽聽They would...
The extract contains cantharidin,聽聽a substance that supposedly increases sexual desire.聽Not only does it not do that, it may eliminate all desire permanently.聽When ingested, cantharidin can kill....
In the fight against pseudoscience, the idea that simply providing more information works every time has been questioned these last decades. The thinking used to be simplistic: when non-experts...
鈥淟ot of times, we鈥檙e drinking or we鈥檙e high, you know, and I say stupid shit.鈥� Coming from a teenager, this statement may invoke memories of your own adolescence. But carried by the voice of then...
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