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Professor Aldini鈥檚 Strange Antics

20 Mar 2017

Professor Aldini began by swabbing the ears with salt water.聽 Then he attached a metal wire to each ear and proceeded to connect them to a battery.聽 Almost immediately the subject鈥檚 face contorted...

Happy New Year to All! Pour the Champagne!

20 Mar 2017

Champagne time! Make sure you drink it from the right kind of glass!...

Disposal of Chemical Weapons in Oceans?

20 Mar 2017

Since World War I, the U.S. Armed Forces have routinely discarded conventional explosives, radiological waste and chemical weapons in the oceans. When this was publicly revealed by the Department...

Leave the Donkey Milk to the Donkeys

20 Mar 2017

Cleopatra supposedly took a daily bath in milk supplied by a herd of some 700 lactating donkeys. How she hit upon this idea isn鈥檛 known, but the legendary beauty may have been familiar Hippocrates鈥...

S-methylthioacrylate, S-methyl-3-(methylthio)thiopropionate and Asparagus?

20 Mar 2017

Asparagus is a wonderful vegetable. Both in taste and in its chemistry. One aspect of its chemistry has been apparent for a long time. A French book on food published in 1702 noted that asparagus...

From Cave Paintings to M&Ms

20 Mar 2017

Studies have shown that red is the colour that attracts attention. Its uses are timeless and endless. Since ancient times, the colour red has been involved in fashion, art, food and cosmetics. But...

A Life Without Sugar May Be Longer

20 Mar 2017

Who would have guessed that a song by the Guess Who would become a health anthem?...

The Catholic Church and Science

20 Mar 2017

Pope Francis鈥 recent statement at the Pontifical Academy of Science that evolution and the Big Bang model are not contrary to Catholic beliefs created quite a stir. Afterall, for many people the...

The Golden Marketing of Golden Alcohol

20 Mar 2017

Marketing these days is often based not on what is in a product, but rather on what it doesn鈥檛 contain. Labels scream no cholesterol, no trans fats, no gluten, no BPA, no phthalates, no parabens...

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