Problems can arise if infants under a year old, or patients who are immune-compromised, ingest honey that contains spores of聽Clostridium botulinum聽bacteria. These spores are ubiquitous in soil and...
It鈥檚 a different world today, especially if you shop for your meat at a supermarket. You select your cut, pre-packaged meat from the refrigerated case, and the butcher who prepared it may not even...
Although the study isn鈥檛 new, its message needs to be reiterated 鈥 taking a bite out of something that has already been bitten once and then dipping it into something is聽by no means a sanitary...
Louis the fifteenth's favourite paramour, as the fable goes, commissioned a glassblower to make the glasses in order to please the king who was so enamoured of her bosom. The story goes down well...
Reindeer, it seems, just loved Amanita muscaria, or Fly Agaric, as it is better known. They could be led around by the nose, as it were, just by sprinkling pieces of the mushroom in front of them....
There's been a mystique around mistletoe since ancient times, probably on account of the curious way it grows. The plant is a 鈥渉emiparasite,鈥 meaning that it can either grow in soil, or, more...