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The Polygraph

22 May 2017

John Augustus Larson was the inventor of the modern polygraph. Although, some list the polygraph as one of the greatest inventions, many scientists consider it to be pseudoscience. 聽Yet, many...

Mints for Gas

21 May 2017

Restaurants often offer mints to their patrons after a meal. This is an old tradition geared to reducing the chance of untoward gaseous emissions. Gas builds up in the intestine in various ways....

Anesthesia Allergies

20 May 2017

A woman became allergic to her husband after twenty five years of marriage.聽She developed pain all over her body every time he approached her. The cause? A pain killer! 聽The husband was a dentist...

EyeBlack

20 May 2017

Many athletes regularly smear a black greasy substance known as 鈥渆ye black鈥 underneath their eyes to reduce glare from the sun or stadium lights. Amazingly, this trend was started by the most...

Smallpox

20 May 2017

Ali Maow of Somalia has the distinction of being the world鈥檚 last recorded victim of smallpox, a disease he acquired in 1977. 聽For the first time ever, through a program of vaccination and...

Cranberries: a Superfood

20 May 2017

Cranberries are commonly associated with Thanksgiving but in early America they played a varied role. Besides the berries serving as food, the plant鈥檚 leaves were commonly used for tea or as a...

A Vital Force

10 May 2017

A single experiment in 1828 destroyed the theory of Vitalism which held that 鈥渙rganic substances鈥 found in living systems could not be made in the laboratory because they were empowered with a ...

Mixing meat and milk

10 May 2017

The Old Testament offers up some dietary advice about not mixing milk and meat. Milk provides a hospitable environment for bacteria on meat to multiply, so this does make sense. Religious...

Monks and Beer

10 May 2017

In the Middle Ages much of beer brewing was carried out by monks. Water is a source of many disease causing organisms which cannot survive in alcohol. Trial and error demonstrated that beer...

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