The scientific name for the Butterfly Pea plant is聽Clitoria ternatea,聽which sounds exactly like what you may be thinking: female genitalia. In fact, its name was inspired by the resemblance of its...
Food-scented beauty products first appeared in the late 1930s when customers were enticed by Harriet Hubbard Ayer鈥檚 clove-scented lipstick, Demeter鈥檚 pizza-scented perfume, and banana-scented...
Nicknamed the teardrop of India for its distinctive shape, the island of Sri Lanka off the southeast coast of the subcontinent has dug itself into an economic hole. In April of 2021, Sri Lanka鈥檚...
A question I am often asked by journalists is if more people believe in conspiracy theories now than before. Sometimes, the question is not even asked; the answer is simply inferred. Of course they...
It was a scientific breakthrough. Persil, introduced by the German company Henkel in 1907 was the world鈥檚 first laundry powder. The name derives from perborate and silicate, two key components in...
Does the sound of a drill smell like bleach to you? I don鈥檛 mean that in a poetic, 鈥渢rying to be interesting鈥� kind of way. I mean, when you hear the sound of a drill, can you automatically聽smell...
