A single experiment in 1828 destroyed the theory of Vitalism which held that 鈥渙rganic substances鈥� found in living systems could not be made in the laboratory because they were empowered with a ...
The Old Testament offers up some dietary advice about not mixing milk and meat. Milk provides a hospitable environment for bacteria on meat to multiply, so this does make sense. Religious...
In the Middle Ages much of beer brewing was carried out by monks. Water is a source of many disease causing organisms which cannot survive in alcohol. Trial and error demonstrated that beer...
Health Canada recently issued an advisory about minimizing exposure to borax based on some studies that have found developmental and reproductive problems in animals. This raised questions among...
Professor Aldini began by swabbing the ears with salt water.聽 Then he attached a metal wire to each ear and proceeded to connect them to a battery.聽 Almost immediately the subject鈥檚 face contorted...
Since World War I, the U.S. Armed Forces have routinely discarded conventional explosives, radiological waste and chemical weapons in the oceans. When this was publicly revealed by the Department...
Cleopatra supposedly took a daily bath in milk supplied by a herd of some 700 lactating donkeys. How she hit upon this idea isn鈥檛 known, but the legendary beauty may have been familiar Hippocrates鈥�...
Asparagus is a wonderful vegetable. Both in taste and in its chemistry. One aspect of its chemistry has been apparent for a long time. A French book on food published in 1702 noted that asparagus...
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