The April 1907 issue of American Medicine featured a paper by Dr. Duncan Macdougall describing his experiment whereby the beds of dying patients were placed on a sensitive balance.聽Believe it or...
When we鈥檙e told a condition we have is 鈥済enetic鈥�, it鈥檚 tempting to think it means our parents had it, and their parents before them, all the way up to some mysterious Eve-bites-the-apple event. But...
Way back in 1771, Swedish chemist Karl Wilhelm Scheele was investigating the properties of a mineral known as fluorspar (calcium fluoride). He mixed the pulverized rock with sulfuric acid and...
Cat scratch disease (CSD) is an infection resulting from a scratch or bite of a cat (or, in rarer cases, dogs or other animals). It is not the same thing as Cat Scratch Fever, an album by Ted...
This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.
There鈥檚 an old riddle that goes, 鈥淲hat does no one want, but no one wants to lose?鈥� Answer: a bald head.
Ryan Armstrong, Executive Director of the non-profit聽Bad Science Watch,聽tells me he never published his first article critical of pseudoscience for fear of a lawsuit. 鈥淢y work also went a bit...
Leopard geckos (Eublepharis macularius) are a popular pet in many countries. They鈥檙e fairly easy to take care of, small, rarely bite, (and when they do it鈥檚 pretty painless) and can live up to 25...
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