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Henry Ford - A Stained American Icon

17 Mar 2021

One of the main goals of our Office is to encourage critical thinking and fact checking. It is especially pleasing to see when a student has done exactly that! I received an email from Kaden...

St. Anthony鈥檚 Fire, the Salem Witch Trials and the Beatles

12 Mar 2021

Gaston of Valloire鈥檚 son was afflicted with a violent burning pain in his swollen limbs. There were no doctors the nobleman could to turn to in 1095, but a nearby church had acquired relics of St....

Lise Meitner: A Noble Scientist

4 Mar 2021

Olivia Fraser Barsby is a biology and anthropology student at 黑料不打烊 University, specializing in conservation, ecology, evolution and behaviour.聽

The Tooth Fairy Science of Bite Mark Comparisons

4 Mar 2021

The idea of using teeth to identify someone has a long history. One of the earliest recorded cases (and perhaps the very first one) dates back to the first century. The wife of Roman Emperor...

A Tryst with Amethyst

23 Feb 2021

An attractive amethyst geode sits on my desk. Geodes are rocks with an internal cavity that is filled with crystals of a mineral. In the case of amethyst that mineral is quartz, tainted with iron...

A Feminine Touch

19 Feb 2021

Women have played a larger role in the history of science than is generally recognized. Although Marie Curie鈥檚 discovery of radium, Lise Meitner鈥檚 work on nuclear fission, Dorothy Hodgkin鈥檚...

The Smell of Books

18 Feb 2021

Video of Dr Joe Schwarcz on the smell of old and new books

What is that smell when I get a root canal done?

8 Jan 2021

Undergoing a root canal procedure is not one of the great pleasures of life, but it is a highly effective technique for saving teeth. The idea is to remove the diseased pulp of a tooth and then...

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