Contrary to popular belief, aspirin does not occur in nature, it is not found in the willow tree. But there is a connection. Aspirin, or acetyl salicylic acid, was first produced commercially by...
鈥淭ake a few steps just to make the Devil mad! Hallelujah! That鈥檚 it, just move around a little bit, there she goes!鈥� Those were the words used by televangelist and soon-to-be-exposed-as-a-fraud...
Back to school season usually evokes the image of new supplies 鈥� coloured highlighters, clean lab coats and lined paper, all packed nicely into students鈥� backpacks. On university campuses, however,...
Queen Victoria was the first monarch to give birth to a child under anesthesia. Prince Leopold, the Queen鈥檚 eighth child, was born in 1853 after her physician Dr. John Snow had administered...
In April of 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a documentary film premiered on YouTube and its title could not have been more relevant: Stressed.
Circe was the sorceress in Greek mythology who drugged Odysseus鈥� crew to make them forget their homeland, then proceeded to turn the men into swine. When Odysseus set out to rescue his crew, he...
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