For many years members of the American Society of Magicians gathered on October 31 at Machpelah Cemetery in New York to break a magic wand over the grave of the man whose name is synonymous with...
During the Second World War Allied soldiers and pilots, like the Germans, were also issued amphetamines. This was not without controversy. The Luftwaffe soon gave up on the drugs because...
If you have eaten curry, you have probably tasted fenugreek. The seeds of this plant as well as its fresh leaves are commonly used as ingredients in curries. They are added for taste but they also...
Quick now, name some famous scientists. Einstein surely comes to mind, then maybe Newton, Marie Curie, Galileo, Stephen Hawking. Not much of a problem. Next, name some famous composers. I suspect...
In 1993, a young Navajo woman arrived at an emergency room in New Mexico suffering from flu-like symptoms and shortness of breath. Despite such 鈥渕inor鈥� symptoms, she soon passed away. Ironically,...
Sir Winston Churchill said Alan Turing鈥檚 breaking of German codes for secret messages shortened the Second World War by two years. Computer scientists credit Turing with formulating the...
Rarely does a single event alter the course of medicine, but that is exactly what happened at Boston鈥檚 Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846 in the surgical theatre that would...
Jay McLean walked into Dr. William Howell鈥檚 laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and placed a beaker of cat blood on his desk. 鈥淐an you please tell me when the blood clots鈥� he asked? It never did...
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