Henry Ford was rich and famous. It is not hard to understand why. After all, he converted the automobile from an expensive novelty into a vehicle affordable for the middle class and in the process...
Gaston of Valloire鈥檚 son was afflicted with a violent burning pain in his swollen limbs. There were no doctors the nobleman could to turn to in 1095, but a nearby church had acquired relics of St....
My 鈥渂read and butter鈥� is demystifying science. Often that takes me down a slippery slope, slaloming between gates of 鈥渋fs,鈥� 鈥渂uts鈥� and 鈥渕aybes,鈥� never quite getting to that definitive finish line....
An attractive amethyst geode sits on my desk. Geodes are rocks with an internal cavity that is filled with crystals of a mineral. In the case of amethyst that mineral is quartz, tainted with iron...
Women have played a larger role in the history of science than is generally recognized. Although Marie Curie鈥檚 discovery of radium, Lise Meitner鈥檚 work on nuclear fission, Dorothy Hodgkin鈥檚...
"Avoid!" One of the most common bits of advice heard these days. Avoid tap water. Avoid bottled water. Avoid butter. Avoid margarine. Avoid the sun. Avoid sweeteners. Avoid genetically modified...
