In the Sherlock Holmes story, The Case of the Illustrious Client, a former paramour seeks revenge on the dastardly Baron Adelbert Gruner by splashing the Baron鈥檚 face with sulphuric acid, which at...
There exists聽a simmering controversy about the safety of playing sports on artificial turf. For those who have engaged in any type of activity on this surface, you would know that they聽heat up in...
"I hate plastics. We should get rid of them.鈥� So began an email I received. The correspondent went on to talk about how plastics are a plague on the environment, how they contain chemicals that...
We haven鈥檛 heard much about polychlorinated biphenyls, or 鈥淧CBs鈥� since the fire at St. Basil-Le Grand in 1988, but we sure are hearing a lot now. There are two angles to the illegally stored PCB...
Farmers who are growing herbicide resistant crops such as corn or soy may start to identify with Audrey Jr. in Little Shop of Horrors. In that film, later made into a Broadway musical, a dorky...
Shrek the friendly ogre delighted audiences in the 2010 movie hit 鈥淪hrek Forever After.鈥� But for fast food giant McDonald鈥檚, Shrek turned out to be a nightmare. As a cross promotional feature, the...
I鈥檓 not a huge fan of automobile racing, but I do admit to catching a bit of the fever when the Formula One cars roll into town. There is something captivating about these machines, capable of...
Molds can sometimes grow to an impressive size. A story has been making the rounds in Montreal about a large piece of mold聽being found in a sample of Oasis juice. You would think from the press...
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