No, Paul Newman did not really eat fifty eggs in an hour in the 1967 film classic, Cool Hand Luke. But that would hardly be a challenge for Joey Chestnut, the world鈥檚 best-known competitive eater....
While walking around the exhibit hall at an agricultural conference a few years ago, when we could still travel, I perused the usual displays of farming equipment and industry booths promoting...
One of the main goals of our Office is to encourage critical thinking and fact checking. It is especially pleasing to see when a student has done exactly that! I received an email from Kaden...
Gaston of Valloire鈥檚 son was afflicted with a violent burning pain in his swollen limbs. There were no doctors the nobleman could to turn to in 1095, but a nearby church had acquired relics of St....
My 鈥渂read and butter鈥� is demystifying science. Often that takes me down a slippery slope, slaloming between gates of 鈥渋fs,鈥� 鈥渂uts鈥� and 鈥渕aybes,鈥� never quite getting to that definitive finish line....
An attractive amethyst geode sits on my desk. Geodes are rocks with an internal cavity that is filled with crystals of a mineral. In the case of amethyst that mineral is quartz, tainted with iron...
