The young mother was surprised by the doctor鈥檚 question. 鈥淲hat does your little girl eat for breakfast?鈥 鈥淥nly hot oatmeal with milk,鈥 she answered. 鈥淒oes she put any sugar on it?鈥 the doctor...
Summer is almost here! Tans will get darker and hair will get lighter. If you really want to get blonder this year, many brands sell hair lightening sprays 鈥 a way to heighten the sun鈥檚 natural...
What if your significant other gifted you baking powder instead of chocolates? What if they invented baking powder? In 1843, British chemist Alfred Bird did just that for his lucky, yeast-allergic,...
One of the questions I鈥檝e been asked recently with increasing frequency is how to avoid exposure to those 鈥渇orever chemicals鈥 that we are being warned about in numerous newspaper articles, books,...
As strange as it sounds, being allergic to the cold is a real thing, and it鈥檚 called 鈥渃old urticaria.鈥 Compared with nut or pollen allergies, an allergy to cold temperatures is much less common,...
Red signifies danger in many cultures. From a distance, green is highly visible by day. At night, yellow is easier to see. That briefly explains the choice of colours on every traffic light. But...
One of my favourite Seinfeld episodes is 鈥淭he Bro.鈥 On discovering that George鈥檚 father, Frank, has 鈥渕an-boobs,鈥 Kramer concocts a male version of a bra, that he calls 鈥淭he Bro.鈥 Frank, who prefers...
Don Quixote mistook windmills for giants and attacked them. That actually seems rational when compared with the attacks launched by Donald Trump against wind turbines, or 鈥渨indmills鈥 in Trump-speak...
By 1878, Louis Pasteur had formulated his germ theory of disease and had turned his attention to chicken cholera, a problem that plagued the French poultry industry. He managed to isolate a microbe...
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