It started with the Helen Keller jokes. You could call it an unfortunate revival. Over forty years ago and following the broadcast of聽The Miracle Worker,聽jokes about Helen Keller became mainstream.
Can a pseudoscience ever truly disappear? Over the course of human history, we have made many attempts at explaining the world around us, and while some of these guesses were eventually confirmed...
Burns, injuries to the skin caused by heat, radiation, electricity, friction, or chemicals, are among the most common and painful injuries. Throughout history, a variety of unusual and sometimes...
The curtain went up in 鈥淗eller鈥檚 Wonder Theatre鈥� on Broadway to reveal a blindfolded lady comfortably seated center stage. A volunteer from the audience was solicited to 鈥減ick a card, any card!鈥�...
For most people a car is just a vehicle that gets them from one place to another, and as far as cleanliness is concerned, occasionally driving through a car wash is good enough. But some...
The first ever toothbrush design, used by ancient Babylonians and Egyptians, dates back to 3500 BC. The primitive toothbrush, known as a 鈥渃hew stick鈥�, was a thin twig with a frayed end. The modern...
When we write the old-fashioned way, with ink on paper, we rarely think of the pen鈥檚 ingredients. For hundreds of years聽gall ink聽was used to produce documents such as Shakespeare鈥檚 will and the U.S...
The green in American paper bills is chromium oxide, a refined version of chromite, a naturally occurring ore in the Earth鈥檚 crust. This ore is also the source of chromium metal which is produced...
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