In 1960 Willard Frank Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize for his method of using carbon-14 to find the age of objects ranging from ancient bows and arrows to trees buried in glacial ice. Since then,...
I鈥檝e never been one for cork sniffing. I always thought it was kind of a snobby thing to do, but I never really investigated the practice since I鈥檝e never really cared much for wine. Then one day,...
Physicians today are unlikely to encounter 鈥淕ilder鈥檚 palsy.鈥� But prior to the 19th century this ailment had to be considered when a patient presented with tremors, irritability, increased...
I looked out the airplane window and then at my 20-month-old, who had no idea that after enjoying the warmth of Florida for two weeks, we were about to enter the frozen tundra of Montreal. 鈥淕et...
A fascinating story is told by the guide on a tour of perhaps the most famous champagne house in the world. Moet et Chandon in Reims is the producer of Dom Perignon, the king of bubblies. The...
Let鈥檚 start at the very beginning. As pure water is cooled to 0oC, it begins to form ice. This simply means that the H2O molecules which were randomly scurrying about in the liquid state now assume...
Our current methods for decaffeinating coffee are far from ideal. There are a few different methods, all with their own nuanced details, but they all shake out to using some kind of solvent to...
Introduced in 1979, the Papermate Erasermate offered something that, up until then, had been science fiction: an erasable pen. While correction fluids and tape were a well-established solution to...
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