/oss/taxonomy/term/890/all en /oss/article/history-you-asked-general-science/would-lone-rangers-silver-bullets-have-tarnished <p>We do get some interesting questions. The Lone Ranger was a television series that ran from 1949 to 1957 and recounted the adventures of a former Texas Ranger who with his companion, the Native American Tonto, fought outlaws in the Old West. His trademarks were a black mask and silver bullets!  </p> Fri, 26 Nov 2021 21:34:39 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 8934 at /oss /oss/article/health-reviews/goop-lab-experiments-viewers-credulity <p>There is a lot of <em>schadenfreude</em> at the sight of Gwyneth Paltrow, high priestess of aspirational brand Goop, sadly eating a reconstituted soup that looks like it was partly digested and regurgitated by a mama bird. After years of Gwyneth encouraging women to torture their bodies in the name of the ever elusive (and delusional) detox, seeing her get a taste of her own pseudomedicine is joyful.</p> Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:33:33 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8090 at /oss /oss/article/did-you-know/smelly-screens <p>Screens that smell like food are in our very near future? Invented by scientists at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan, these ”smelling screens” makes smells appear to come from the exact spot on any LCD screen that is displaying the image of a particular food. It works by continuously feeding odours from vaporizing gel pellets into four air streams, one in each corner of the screen. These air streams are blown out parallel to the screen’s surface by fans, and varying the strength and direction of them manoeuvres the scent to any given spot on the screen.</p> Thu, 25 May 2017 00:17:12 +0000 OSS 2493 at /oss