"I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet."聽 With these words Victor Frankenstein began his account of the...
Chemistry can be roughly divided into two branches, analysis and synthesis. Chemists either try to identify existing substances or make new ones. By the early 19th century, a number of substances...
If you drive to pick up your child after school and notice that sometimes they go and greet聽another parent聽instead who has a car similar to yours, what goes through your head?
In 1995, researchers from Cambridge University asked the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society for a sample of an eyeball that had been sitting in a jar on a shelf since 1844. That eye had...
This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.
Want to prolong life? To start with, you need three corpses from healthy young men accidentally killed in within the previous 12 hours.
I鈥檝e long been intrigued by the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. The magnificent building was constructed of 60,000 panes of glass, ten times as many as in the windows of the Empire State...
Although I could get straight to the point and tell you about Persian carpets, it鈥檚 only fitting to begin with a bit of history about the Persian Empire. Cyrus the Great, who reigned from...
Genghis Khan is more legend than man. We鈥檙e not even sure when he was born: historians agree it鈥檚 somewhere in the decade that spans 1155 and 1167. That birth has itself been mythologized. Stories...
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