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Nanotechnology

20 Mar 2017

Richard Feynman, Nobel prize winning physicist and science popularizer par excellence liked practical jokes, but I doubt he would have enjoyed watching people in the buff parade on Chicago鈥檚...

Sherlock Holmes and Curare

20 Mar 2017

In the film 鈥淪herlock Holmes and the Game of Shadows,鈥 Holmes identifies the poison on a dart that had instantly paralyzed a victim by sniffing it. 鈥淐urare!鈥 he says. Curare is a very real poison...

What is 鈥淭ruth Serum?鈥

20 Mar 2017

鈥淭ruth serum鈥 refers to various drugs that have been used in attempts to extract truthful statements from people. Wine was the basic method for extraction during ancient times, however, the first...

A History of Himalayan Salt

20 Mar 2017

In Roman times slaves were used to mine salt. It was not a pleasant chore. But today in the Ukraine some people willingly spend several hours a day in a salt mine. They are not there, though, to...

What is The History of Tattoos?

20 Mar 2017

On a fall day in 1991, two Germans hiking in the Alps near the Italian- Austrian border stumbled across what they initially believed to be a modern corpse frozen in the ice. Once the body was...

Flying High with Aluminum

20 Mar 2017

The date was July 2nd, 1982.

What causes a geyser to erupt?

20 Mar 2017

The science of geyser eruptions was worked out by none other than Robert Bunsen-聽of burner fame. Actually Bunsen did not invent the burner but did improve upon existing equipment by showing that...

Time for the Flu Shot!

20 Mar 2017

Influenza is a nasty illness. It isn鈥檛 just a bad cold. This viral infection kills up to half a million people in the world every year. And that鈥檚 in a good year. In a bad year, like 1968, the Hong...

Why do you never see a baby housefly?

20 Mar 2017

Because baby houseflies don鈥檛 exist. A little backgrounder on the flies鈥 reproductive cycle can clear up this seeming conundrum. Within a week of mating, a doggie-style activity lasting from a few...

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