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A Tale of Benzene Poisoning and a Snake Snaring Its Own Tail

29 Mar 2024

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. Professor Carl Santesson was intrigued.

Can We Get Smarter By Popping a Pill?

27 Mar 2024

We live in a world where people attempt to settle differences with insane wars and acts of terror. We foul our nest with an array of pollutants. We succumb to preventable diseases. We struggle to...

Can Vitamin C cure the common cold? Hold on

22 Mar 2024

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette....

Taking a Bath in Bath

20 Mar 2024

I first got interested in the history of the English town of Bath years ago when I had the pleasure of sitting in the famous 鈥淧ump Room,鈥 sipping a glass of Bath water. A brochure on the table told...

The History of Clinical Trials

15 Mar 2024

Today when a new medication is introduced, we expect it to be backed by evidence gleaned from proper research. Our gold standard is the randomized double-blind controlled trial, but surprisingly...

Statues That Perform Miracles

13 Mar 2024

It was a miracle! Or at least seemed to be one. The date: September 20, 1985. The place: A Hindu temple, New Delhi, India. Traffic around the temple snarled as the curious rushed to witness a...

Does Daylight Savings Time Actually Save Energy?

8 Mar 2024

The surefire signs that Spring is just around the corner have started to appear 鈥 trees are budding, flowers beginning to bloom and there鈥檚 more rain than snow. (Full disclosure 鈥 I live in the UK...

It鈥檚 A Chemical World!

6 Mar 2024

It鈥檚 a chemical world out there! We are awash in some fifty million known chemicals, the majority of which are created by nature, a minority by chemists. They鈥檙e not good or bad, not safe or...

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