In Roman times slaves were used to mine salt. It was not a pleasant chore. But today in the Ukraine some people willingly spend several hours a day in a salt mine. They are not there, though, to...
On a fall day in 1991, two Germans hiking in the Alps near the Italian- Austrian border stumbled across what they initially believed to be a modern corpse frozen in the ice. Once the body was...
The science of geyser eruptions was worked out by none other than Robert Bunsen-聽of burner fame. Actually Bunsen did not invent the burner but did improve upon existing equipment by showing that...
Influenza is a nasty illness. It isn鈥檛 just a bad cold. This viral infection kills up to half a million people in the world every year. And that鈥檚 in a good year. In a bad year, like 1968, the Hong...
Because baby houseflies don鈥檛 exist. A little backgrounder on the flies鈥� reproductive cycle can clear up this seeming conundrum. Within a week of mating, a doggie-style activity lasting from a few...
Doyle had become interested in spiritualism in the late 1800s and joined the British Society for Psychical Research (SPR). In 1894 he was one of the members of a committee sent to investigate a...
Victorian ladies fainted with alarming frequency. They had been characterized as the weaker sex and had become conditioned to fulfil the role. A little shock, such as a glance at a passage in Lady...
Take the carcass of a duck and place 35 grams of its liver and 15 grams of its heart in a one liter bottle filled with a solution of pancreatic juice and glucose. When after forty days the liver...
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