There were no video games. There was no Internet. TV had not yet been invented. So in the early 1900s, British children played 鈥渃onkers.鈥 This is perhaps best described as an early form of ...
The fact that virtually everything in our life, be it digesting our food, using medications to treat disease, producing the clothes we wear, and even the grinding of our mental gears can be...
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...
It's a lovely feeling to wake up in the morning and be greeted by a beautiful bouquet artfully arranged in a vase. But it's a far less pleasant one when you start to notice their petals falling,...
American humorist James Thurber reputedly once remarked that 鈥渓ove is a strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.鈥 Anyone who has ever been in love will agree....
When Dr. Anna O. Szust emailed all of these academic journals to join their editorial boards, she did not anticipate that so many of them would approve her application within hours. In fact, she...
I have a longstanding fascination with Victorian arts and sciences. It was the era when Darwin published the 鈥淥rigin of the Species,鈥 Perkin synthesized dyes, Lister introduced antiseptic surgery,...