Arab perfumers in the sixth century were the first to discover that diluting the obnoxious smelling dried contents of the little pod found near the anus of the male Asian musk deer not only...
The term 鈥渇ood accessory factor鈥� was coined by British biochemist Frederick Gowland Hopkins in 1906 after he demonstrated that rats fed a diet of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and minerals failed...
One of the better-known episodes of the original Star Trek series is called 鈥淢irror, Mirror鈥� and it dramatizes a freak transporter accident which sends Kirk, Uhura, Bones, and Scotty to an...
Ice cream, milk, cheese, yogurt, cream, butter and all other dairy products haunt the dreams of people with lactose intolerance. Over 68% of the world鈥檚 population has some degree of lactose...
So, you celebrated the new year with a glass of the bubbly. But was it the right kind of glass? A little background first. Champagne is produced mainly from black grapes in the Champagne region of...
This article was first published in聽The Skeptical Inquirer.
It comes down to the high sugar content of fruitcake and the not insignificant amount of booze included in many recipes.
Let鈥檚 talk about flying reindeer. And to start, let鈥檚 travel to the snow covered fields of Lapland and Siberia, where the legend of Santa Claus may have originated. Hundreds of years ago the...
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