Should we be spending hundreds of hard-earned dollars on expensive sunglasses or do we get the same protection from cheaper models available off of racks at the pharmacy? It seems that dishing out...
When I was young, the first official day of summer for me was not June 21st. It didn鈥檛 matter what the weather was, summer did not really begin until the day my mother made cold sour cherry soup...
The properties of a substance are determined by the structure of its component molecules. Vitamin C that is synthesized in the laboratory has exactly the same atoms joined together in exactly the...
Wasabi has antimicrobial properties which may have safeguarded Japanese sushi eaters over the years. Specifically, 鈥�6-methylsulfinylhexyl isothiocyanate鈥� has been identified in wasabi as an anti...
Hippocrates used a powder made from the skeletons of mice. Pliny the Elder used burnt eggshells, and the ancient Arabs resorted to twigs from the Arak shrub. What were they trying to do? Clean...
Somebody is after Procter and Gamble and it is hard to know why. Years ago there was the allegation that the company鈥檚 corporate logo hid a picture of the devil, then sodium lauryl sulfate, a...
