From the Jungle to the Operating Room
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View ArticlePhenylethylamine is Said To Stoke the Fire of Love. Here Comes the Water Bucket.
<p>American humorist James Thurber reputedly once remarked that “love is a strange bewilderment which overtakes one person on account of another person.” Anyone who has ever been in love will...
View ArticleNothing Memorable About Memory Supplements
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View ArticleIt’s A Chemical World!
<p>It’s a chemical world out there! We are awash in some fifty million known chemicals, the majority of which are created by nature, a minority by chemists. They’re not good or bad, not safe or...
View ArticleDoes Daylight Savings Time Actually Save Energy?
<p>The surefire signs that Spring is just around the corner have started to appear – trees are budding, flowers beginning to bloom and there’s more rain than snow. (Full disclosure – I live in...
View ArticleStatues That Perform Miracles
<p>It was a miracle! Or at least seemed to be one. The date: September 20, 1985. The place: A Hindu temple, New Delhi, India. Traffic around the temple snarled as the curious rushed to witness a...
View ArticleThe History of Clinical Trials
<p>Today when a new medication is introduced, we expect it to be backed by evidence gleaned from proper research. Our gold standard is the randomized double-blind controlled trial, but...
View ArticleTaking a Bath in Bath
<p>I first got interested in the history of the English town of Bath years ago when I had the pleasure of sitting in the famous “Pump Room,” sipping a glass of Bath water. A brochure on the table...
View ArticleCan Vitamin C cure the common cold? Hold on
<hr /> <p><em>This article was first published in <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/the-right-chemistry-can-vitamin-c-cure-the-common-cold-hold-on">The...
View ArticleCan We Get Smarter By Popping a Pill?
<p>We live in a world where people attempt to settle differences with insane wars and acts of terror. We foul our nest with an array of pollutants. We succumb to preventable diseases. We struggle...
View ArticleA Tale of Benzene Poisoning and a Snake Snaring Its Own Tail
<hr /> <p><em>This article was first published in <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/the-right-chemistry-a-tale-of-a-snake-snaring-its-tail">The Montreal...
View ArticleSordid Medicine Shows Exploited Indigenous Cures
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View ArticleAcetone, Horse Chestnuts and the Weizmann Institute
<p>There were no video games. There was no Internet. TV had not yet been invented. So in the early 1900s, British children played “conkers.” This is perhaps best described as an early form of...
View ArticlePassover Stories Can Ignite Science
<p> “Moses looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.” That passage from Exodus is one of the most famous ones in the entire Bible! After all, it was from that...
View ArticleWhy Measles Is So Contagious
<p>Even if he had been aware of what was happening inside the girl’s body, the man likely would not have been worried. She was, after all, sitting quite a long ways away.</p> <p>The...
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