The term derives from 鈥渜uaranta giorni,鈥� meaning 40 days, and traces back to the 14th century when the city of Dubrovnik, now in Croatia, was under Venetian rule. The Great Pestilence, or the Great...
It started with a video of a woman, supposedly in Wuhan, eating a bat. The inference, with racist overtones, is that the Chinese habit of consuming strange foods has now put the population of the...
Baby carrots are everywhere. Children and adults alike can be found munching on them. Even sports fans have found them to be a good聽dipping tool. As they should! Because carrots have no fat, they...
Just about every textbook of toxicology pays homage to Paracelsus, the sixteenth century alchemist. Why? Because he introduced the idea that 鈥渙nly the dose makes the poison.鈥� It makes no sense to...
