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Drug Testing

20 Mar 2017

There are a lot of people who make money by doing drugs. Not the way you think though. They take on the role of human guinea pigs to test prospective medicinal drugs. Their role is mired in...

Bath Salts & Other Spiked Drugs

20 Mar 2017

鈥淏ath salts,鈥 鈥渧acuum fresheners鈥 and 鈥減lant food鈥 seem innocuous enough. You can pick then up at some gas stations, convenience stores, some garden supply shops, or order them on the Internet....

Can a hospice cat signal death is looming?

20 Mar 2017

16th century Italians looked on black cats with a wary eye. Especially if one snuggled up to a bedridden patient. The cat鈥檚 affection, they thought, signaled that death was approaching. Oscar the...

"Social Tonics"

20 Mar 2017

If it isn鈥檛 illegal, it must be legal. That鈥檚 why benzylpiperazine pills, under names such as Purepillz, Peaq, The Good Stuff, Frenzy and Pure Rush can be sold in Canada. And what are these pills? ...

Aspirin and Heart Disease

20 Mar 2017

A time-honoured medical maxim states, 鈥減rimum non nocere.鈥 That鈥檚 the way, 鈥渇irst do no harm鈥 used to be taught in medical school when Latin was still part of the curriculum. Basically it means...

Why can't I use fresh pineapple to make Jell-O?

20 Mar 2017

Pineapple, kiwi and papaya all contain proteolytic enzymes, in other words enzymes capable of breaking down protein molecules. And gelatin, the substance that makes Jell-O gel, is a protein....

Wrinkles in Wrinkle Cream Reports

20 Mar 2017

So I鈥檓 sitting here, staring at a couple of close up pictures of some person鈥檚 eye area. I see crows鈥 feet in both. Are there fewer feet in the bottom picture? Maybe. If I look with a magnifying...

The Atom Bomb and the Age of Wine

20 Mar 2017

The purveyors of fake wines probably never dreamed that they could be caught by a carbon atom. A special kind of carbon atom. One that in addition to the six protons in its nucleus has eight...

The Chemistry of Self-Cleaning Windows

20 Mar 2017

Self-cleaning windows are here, thanks to recent developments in 鈥減hotocatalysis鈥 and 鈥渟uper-hydrophilicity.鈥 Tongue-twisting terms, but well worth exploring. Titanium dioxide is a naturally...

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