If I asked you what was John Grisham鈥檚 most important book, which would you pick? The Firm? The Client? According to him, it鈥檚 a thin book you鈥檝e never heard of. It鈥檚 called The Tumor: A Non-Legal...
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A liner prevents the metal from reacting with the can鈥檚 contents. The concern is about bisphenol A (BPA), one of the components used to produce the epoxy resin, leaching out into the food or...
You stick them into a birthday cake, stand back and revel in the brilliant shower of sparks. What you are witnessing are glowing metal particles, usually aluminum, but iron titanium, zinc or...
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A few years ago, I found myself on a small boat in the Pacific Ocean. The weather conditions were dodgy, but our skipper decided to go ahead with the whale watching expedition. The first couple of...
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