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Boost Your Knowledge about Boosting Your Immune System

6 Jan 2021

鈥淩einforce and Boost Your Immune System鈥 promised the ad splashed across two pages of a local newspaper. There were products galore! Mushroom extracts, probiotics, collagen supplements, exotic oils...

The Right Chemistry: Dry Ice

25 Dec 2020

Video of Dr. Joe Schwarcz discusses dry ice

Sunshine and Moonbeams

17 Dec 2020

When the imaginative little boy was asked in school to give an example of how heat makes things expand and cold causes them to contract, he authoritatively stated that in the summertime the days...

Let It (Fake) Snow!

16 Dec 2020

Have you ever wondered how ski hill operators make snow? Actually, they don't make snow, they make tiny beads of ice, each one about one ten-thousandth of an inch in diameter. It all starts with...

A Holiday Treat - Marshmallows and Hot Chocolate

11 Dec 2020

Believe it or not, the tasty marshmallows we know are inspired by a plant, a perennial that grows up to about four feet high. Its root has a soft and spongy texture and looks like lung tissue,...

Will Wearing A Hat Make Me Go Bald?

19 Nov 2020

This article was first published in聽The聽Skeptical Inquirer.

Here's Jeopardy!

10 Nov 2020

In many households, 7:00 pm is time for Jeopardy (although these days, with video recording and repeats on Netflix, any time can be Jeopardy time). For thirty-seven years many of us have invited...

Soaring with Helium

16 Oct 2020

You鈥檙e at a birthday party and the place is full of helium-filled balloons stuck to the ceiling. How are these balloons defying gravity? No magic involved! The law of buoyancy as first stated in...

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