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Q: Why Do Battery Letters Skip from A to C? And Was There Ever a B-Cell Battery?
mental_floss question of the day.
For many years, Einstein's brain “floated in two mason jars of formaldehyde, inside a cardboard box marked Costa Cider, under a beer cooler…”
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The Healthy Skeptic: Whole Body Vibration Training Is A Case Of The Emperor Having No Clothes
To paraphrase Coleridge, “Research, research everywhere but not a drop of proof.”
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The WD-40 Story: What's Non-Carcinogenic And Has Its Own Fan Club?
The simple, handy product that's been around for over 50 years.
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The "Research" Behind the Hypergravity Whole Body Vibration Platform
Decide for yourself if research constitutes proof the Whole Body Vibration training is viable for the general population.
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Planet Rodney Dangerfield: Pluto Gets Dissed
To have your own moon catch up with you has to be the ultimate in being dissed if you’ve gotten used to being a planet.
Pluto not a planet? More battery recalls? Plan B without a prescription? Yeah.
Scientists are struggling to predict when (not if) the middle third of the United States will be geologically devastated.
The Rhode Island state medical board won’t discipline a prominent physician after she performed an oophorectomy intended for another patient with the same last name.
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Book Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
A reporter's highly readable account of the role of mankind in climate change and its effects.
BC Writer of the Day