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A Bloody Mess

4 Jun 2021

Take some corn syrup, water, flour, red food dye and blue food dye. Blend these ingredients together in the right ratio and you鈥檒l have a great batch of fake blood! It won鈥檛 be of any good for...

Alien Encounters

2 Jun 2021

Let鈥檚 play the word association game. 鈥淟ittle green men.鈥

Did you know: Goldfinger鈥檚 first name was 鈥淎uric鈥 based on the Latin 鈥渁urum鈥 for gold.

28 May 2021

鈥淎u鈥 is also the chemical symbol for the element. 鈥淎urora鈥 was the Roman goddess of the dawn and her name became associated with gold because of the colour of the sky at dawn. Ian Fleming named his...

鈥淒o you expect me to talk?鈥 No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.鈥

27 May 2021

That鈥檚 the classic exchange between British Secret Service agent James Bond and archvillain Auric Goldfinger as a laser beam begins to inch up the gold-plated table on which Bond is bound,...

Phineas Gage, Neuroscience and Count Dracula

14 May 2021

The glass cases at the Warren Anatomical Museum in Boston are filled with a variety of fascinating items that have played a role in the history of medicine. On display is a one- meter long iron rod...

What exactly is 鈥淕reen Chemistry?鈥

30 Apr 2021

In 1942 nylon went to war. American paratroopers dropped from the sky with nylon parachutes and hunkered down in nylon tents. Soldiers on leave hoped to seduce European women with gifts of nylon...

Curious About Curare

25 Mar 2021

Olivia Fraser Barsby is a biology and anthropology student at UU直播, specializing in conservation, ecology, evolution and behaviour.聽...

Henry Ford - A Stained American Icon

17 Mar 2021

Henry Ford was rich and famous. It is not hard to understand why. After all, he converted the automobile from an expensive novelty into a vehicle affordable for the middle class and in the process...

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