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Composers鈥 deaths left many questions unanswered

20 Mar 2017

Both Beethoven and Mozart were spectacular talents whose music will live forever. That鈥檚 a fact. But when it comes to the composers鈥 deaths, facts give way to theories, some reasonable, some...

Does Hydroquinone Have a Dark Side?

20 Mar 2017

They were once mistakenly thought to be caused by a disease of the liver, so they are called 鈥渓iver spots.鈥 Actually these skin blemishes are caused by a buildup of the skin pigment melanin and are...

Of Mummies, Pigments and Pretzels

20 Mar 2017

Records indicate that the earliest ancient Egyptians buried their dead in the desert where the heat and dryness of the sand dehydrated the bodies creating natural 'mummies'. Later, in order to...

Castor bean oil plays growing role in chocolate manufacture

20 Mar 2017

I think the first medicine I ever heard of was 鈥淩icinus,鈥 a liquidy concoction with which my mother plied me when she suspected I was constipated. I can鈥檛 imagine why as a child I would have had...

Valerian for Insomnia?

20 Mar 2017

O sleep! O gentle sleep!

Snake Bitten

20 Mar 2017

Not many people have heard of boomslang. That鈥檚 not surprising because these聽venomous tree snakes are a super shy and non-aggressive species native to Sub-Saharan Africa. These snakes exhibit...

Antimony!

20 Mar 2017

Picture this. You swallow a little pill, wait until it irritates your intestines enough to expel its contents and then hunt through the expelled excrement to retrieve the pill. Why? So you can use...

Celebrating the life of Harry Houdini who died on October 31, 1926

20 Mar 2017

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...

Attention to Amphetamines

20 Mar 2017

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...

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