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The Dangers of Mirror Life

10 Jan 2025

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...

Dental X-Rays May Be Overused But They Are Safe

6 Dec 2024

X-rays of our teeth are routinely prescribed by dentists, but you know what else follows a certain periodicity? Media coverage of the alleged danger and overuse of these dental radiographs.

Is There a Magic Bullet for Alzheimer's Disease?

25 Oct 2024

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette....

The Beginnings of Chemical Synthesis

22 Oct 2024

Chemistry can be roughly divided into two branches, analysis and synthesis. Chemists either try to identify existing substances or make new ones. By the early 19th century, a number of substances...

Oh, That Bathtub Ring!

16 Oct 2024

In 1933 Calgon Incorporated of Pittsburgh introduced its flagship product, appropriately named 鈥淐algon.鈥 The name was derived from the phrase 鈥渃alcium gone,鈥 which was an accurate description of...

Tiny MicroRNAs Win Big Nobel Prize

11 Oct 2024

It may surprise you but when microRNAs were discovered, the scientific community shrugged. 鈥淪o what?鈥 it seemed to say. Here we are, in 2024, and this discovery has resulted in two of its leading...

Genetic Engineering Has Been Applied to Cheese Making: No Reason to Be Cheesed Off.

24 Sep 2024

Cheese producers were cheesed off.聽 People were just not eating enough veal.聽 Slaughterhouses were running short of calf stomachs and the cheese industry was feeling the pinch.聽 There was not...

Can You Trust Dr. Wikipedia?

6 Sep 2024

Do you know who invented the electric toaster? If you answered Alan MacMasters, a young Scotsman with high cheekbones and quite a head of hair, you鈥檝e been lied to by Wikipedia.

Say Cheese!

16 Jul 2024

Cheese producers were cheesed off. People were just not eating enough veal. Slaughterhouses were running short of calf stomachs and the cheese industry was feeling the pinch. There was not enough...

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