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Having Trouble with Faces? There鈥檚 a Name for That

18 Oct 2024

If you drive to pick up your child after school and notice that sometimes they go and greet聽another parent聽instead who has a car similar to yours, what goes through your head?

We Have a Surplus of Baby Boys

4 Oct 2024

Be honest: have you ever made love to your partner in a specific position because you heard that it would result in a baby boy?

John Dalton鈥檚 Eyeball

2 Oct 2024

In 1995, researchers from Cambridge University asked the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society for a sample of an eyeball that had been sitting in a jar on a shelf since 1844. That eye had...

The Life and Death of a Soviet-Era Search for Longevity

20 Sep 2024

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette. Want to prolong life? To start with, you need three corpses from healthy young men accidentally killed in within the previous 12 hours.

Arsenic and Old Books

5 Sep 2024

I鈥檝e long been intrigued by the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. The magnificent building was constructed of 60,000 panes of glass, ten times as many as in the windows of the Empire State...

The Weaving History of Persian Carpets

23 Aug 2024

Although I could get straight to the point and tell you about Persian carpets, it鈥檚 only fitting to begin with a bit of history about the Persian Empire. Cyrus the Great, who reigned from...

Is Genghis Khan Hiding Inside Your DNA?

23 Aug 2024

Genghis Khan is more legend than man. We鈥檙e not even sure when he was born: historians agree it鈥檚 somewhere in the decade that spans 1155 and 1167. That birth has itself been mythologized. Stories...

The Book Natural Healers Really Hate

16 Aug 2024

To the conspiracy-minded alternative health practitioner, everything was great until the Flexner Report was published.

Water Cures Have Flowed Through History

16 Aug 2024

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.

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