Coffee first appeared in Canadian cups about two hundred years ago, some three hundred years after people in Africa and the Middle East were regularly consuming the beverage. The most popular...
The scene was a street corner in London sometime in the 17th聽century. A skeptical crowd had gathered to see if the performer could deliver on his promise to pour whatever drink asked for, be it...
Flatulence has been immortalized in this children鈥檚 song: 鈥淏eans, beans, the musical fruit / The more you eat, the more you toot.鈥� The same can be said of milk for those of us with lactose...
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...
I know what you鈥檙e thinking. If not evidence-based, what else could medicine be? Well, it could be based on conjecture, hearsay, wishful thinking, anecdote or just plain flim-flam. Indeed,...
By 1878, Louis Pasteur had formulated his germ theory of disease and had turned his attention to chicken cholera, a problem that plagued the French poultry industry. He managed to isolate a microbe...
Can you imagine eating 78 matzah balls in 8 minutes? That鈥檚 about 4,000 calories and 2,700 mg of cholesterol! Joey Chestnut accomplished that monumental feat back in 2008 at the Inaugural World...
Dr. Katsusaburo Yamagiwa, a Japanese pathologist at Imperial Tokyo University, and his research assistant, Dr. Koichi Ichikawa, carried out an experiment in which they repeatedly painted the inner...
Trust can disappear in an instant and take generations to gain back. The story of Henrietta Lacks鈥� immortal cancer cells is a stark reminder of that. Its loud echoes partly inform our present, as...
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