鈥淏ut where鈥檚 the harm?鈥� we are so often asked. When your baby dies and has to be resuscitated in the emergency room, I鈥檇 say the harm has a Vegas-sized neon arrow above it....
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...
Want to add a bit of extra delight to that cake or sundae? No need to bother with whisking some cream when you can just reach for that aerosol cannister of whipped cream. Just squeeze the little...
Most nutritional studies are observational meaning that researchers observe what happens in a given population as a result of consuming a food or beverage without any sort of intervention on their...
Imagine stepping outside on a cloudy day, feeling confident that your skin is safe from the sun's rays simply because the sun is hidden behind a layer of clouds. This common belief can be...
One of the fundamental reactions we teach in organic chemistry is 鈥渘ucleophilic substitution鈥� in which an atom or group of atoms in a molecule is exchanged for another one. Quite logically, the...
Recently, a carpet burn removed the epidermis, the top layer of my skin, of my upper middle finger. It left a large open wound on my hand. Fortunately, I was close to the ocean so I could swim in...
Burns, injuries to the skin caused by heat, radiation, electricity, friction, or chemicals, are among the most common and painful injuries. Throughout history, a variety of unusual and sometimes...
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