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Spicy Food | We eat poison
We all know the feeling — some spicy dish attracted our attention, and we dared to try it, only to feel a fire starting in
Why do waterfalls retreat?
Did you know that waterfalls themselves, and not just the water in them, are constantly moving? The water rushes forward and falls, but the waterfall
Why Do Traffic Signs Look The Way They Do?
The birthplace of traffic signs is thought to be Paris. In 1908, the first World Road Congress was held here, and the very first traffic
History of Coins
Why would we discuss coins today, in the age of electronic transactions, credit cards, Bitcoin, and blockchain? Such hard currency may seem outdated, but, despite
Twitter By Post: A History Of Postcards
Dear reader!
Did you know that a postcard is not just a souvenir? This small piece of thin cardstock has a long history, and
The Physics Of Surfing
Many centuries ago, riding waves was a favorite pastime of the natives of Polynesia, and today it’s a professional sport that’s even included in the
Frozen Man
In imaginings of the future in film and television such as Futurama or Alien, people are easily frozen for hundreds of years or placed into
Oxford Words of The Year
Would you like to know what words were on everyone’s lips ten years ago? We don’t need a time machine to find out! All we
Where did the meteorites go?
How can anyone say with certainty that we’ve never been visited by aliens from outer space? Thousands of meteorites have, at some point, made their
Why Every City Has Its Own Climate?
Most of the people on Earth currently live in cities, but many of them don’t realize that the urban climate they experience is different than
The Coming Renaissance
On November 14th, 2007, engineer Fred Simms pulled the plug on the electric supply that ran from a substation to 10 East 40th Street in
Paracelsus: Alchemy to the Aid of Medicine
What might Severus Snape and Paracelsus, a Swiss doctor of the Renaissance period, have in common? More than you can imagine! Both were professors, practiced
Pi Number
It is a well-accepted practice to represent the number equivalent to the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter with the Greek
Why It’s So Hard to Go against the Grain?
Sometimes we do something just because everyone else around us is doing it. We buy a new video game because our friends are obsessed with
