I鈥檝e long been fascinated by space travel. I think I was first turned onto the idea back around 1957 with one of the first television shows I remember watching. 鈥淩ocky Jones, Space Ranger鈥� was a...
There鈥檚 a buzz in the air these days, a loud one. I鈥檓 sure you鈥檝e heard it but it could have easily been mistaken for a malfunctioning drone plane stuck in the trees. The sounds of summer are...
"It's as smooth as a baby's behind!" That's the ultimate compliment to the skin. Why is a baby's bottom so silky smooth anyway? Because it hasn't been exposed to the sun, that's why! As we age, our...
O sleep! O gentle sleep! /聽Nature鈥檚 soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, /聽That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down /聽And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
There is a lot of nonsense that goes around about microwaves. I鈥檓 sure you heard many of them. They destroy nutrients in food. They cause cancer if you stand next to a microwave oven. Microwaved...
We are having some major issues here in the Office for Science & Society. The issue? Ants. That鈥檚 right. Those itsy bitsy teeny weeny insects that somehow make their way through every nook,...
Everything in the world, except perhaps a vampire, has a mirror image. But mirror images are curious things. Imagine that you place a ping-pong ball in front of a mirror. If you could somehow pick...
They are all composed only of carbon. What determines the properties of any substance? Simple. The properties of any substance depend on the type and number of atoms they are composed of, and of...
Ancient Romans, for example, used urine and goat milk to whiten their teeth. This concoction is not as far-fetched as it might first appear. Urine, contains ammonia which is a cleaning agent found...
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