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A Well-Established Balancing Act

18 Oct 2024

Some things can be classified with high acidity, like lemon juice, or low acidity, like bicarbonate. Acidity is often measured on a pH scale. This is because Danish chemist Søren Peter Lauritz...

Processing Information About Processed Meat

8 Oct 2024

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization lists processed meats in its “Category 1,” reserved for substances known to cause cancer in humans....

A Migraine Is More Than Just a Bad Headache

4 Oct 2024

A migraine is often misunderstood as just “a bad headache,” but this assumption couldn't be further from the truth. Migraines are a complex neurological disorder, far more debilitating than a...

John Dalton’s Eyeball

2 Oct 2024

In 1995, researchers from Cambridge University asked the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society for a sample of an eyeball that had been sitting in a jar on a shelf since 1844. That eye had...

Why Do Some People Breathe into a Bag When Hyperventilating?

27 Sep 2024

“Just breathe!” is probably the worst thing that you can tell someone who is hyperventilating. The fact is, they can’t! Whatever the cause of the hyperventilation, screaming and telling someone to...

The Life and Death of a Soviet-Era Search for Longevity

20 Sep 2024

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. Want to prolong life? To start with, you need three corpses from healthy young men accidentally killed in within the previous 12 hours.

Another Bullet Fired at Highly Processed Food

11 Sep 2024

Elie Metchnikoff drank sour milk every day. He believed that the lactic acid bacteria found in fermented foods like yogurt, especially the Lactobacillus bulgaricus strain, helped to promote...

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