O sleep! O gentle sleep! /聽Nature鈥檚 soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, /聽That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down /聽And steep my senses in forgetfulness?
There is a lot of nonsense that goes around about microwaves. I鈥檓 sure you heard many of them. They destroy nutrients in food. They cause cancer if you stand next to a microwave oven. Microwaved...
Why do snakes make venom? Essentially to bring down prey for food, but snakes will also bite to defend themselves. Chemically, the poisons are very complex and are generally composed of numerous...
This post needs a bit of a background. A few weeks ago we noted that the Dean of Pharmacy at the University of Toronto was organizing a trial on using homeopathic preparations for the treatment of...
I often ask myself questions. 鈥淚s that a fact?鈥� is perhaps the one that crops up most frequently. That鈥檚 because no day goes by without someone soliciting my opinion about an item they have come...
Gelotophobia can best be defined as the 鈥減otentially debilitating fear of being laughed at.鈥� A person suffering from gelotophobia may hear a stranger鈥檚 laugh and believe it is aimed at him or her....
The Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors has produced several television ads featuring Naturopathic doctors sporting white lab coats and stethoscopes highlighting their apparent medical...
They are all composed only of carbon. What determines the properties of any substance? Simple. The properties of any substance depend on the type and number of atoms they are composed of, and of...
Ancient Romans, for example, used urine and goat milk to whiten their teeth. This concoction is not as far-fetched as it might first appear. Urine, contains ammonia which is a cleaning agent found...
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