A single experiment in 1828 destroyed the theory of Vitalism which held that 鈥渙rganic substances鈥� found in living systems could not be made in the laboratory because they were empowered with a ...
The Old Testament offers up some dietary advice about not mixing milk and meat. Milk provides a hospitable environment for bacteria on meat to multiply, so this does make sense. Religious...
In the Middle Ages much of beer brewing was carried out by monks. Water is a source of many disease causing organisms which cannot survive in alcohol. Trial and error demonstrated that beer...
Health Canada recently issued an advisory about minimizing exposure to borax based on some studies that have found developmental and reproductive problems in animals. This raised questions among...
Quick now, name some famous scientists. Einstein surely comes to mind, then maybe Newton, Marie Curie, Galileo, Stephen Hawking. Not much of a problem. Next, name some famous composers. I suspect...
In 1993, a young Navajo woman arrived at an emergency room in New Mexico suffering from flu-like symptoms and shortness of breath. Despite such 鈥渕inor鈥� symptoms, she soon passed away. Ironically,...
Sir Winston Churchill said Alan Turing鈥檚 breaking of German codes for secret messages shortened the Second World War by two years. Computer scientists credit Turing with formulating the...
Rarely does a single event alter the course of medicine, but that is exactly what happened at Boston鈥檚 Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846 in the surgical theatre that would...
Jay McLean walked into Dr. William Howell鈥檚 laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and placed a beaker of cat blood on his desk. 鈥淐an you please tell me when the blood clots鈥� he asked? It never did...
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