I have a longstanding fascination with Victorian arts and sciences. It was the era when Darwin published the 鈥淥rigin of the Species,鈥� Perkin synthesized dyes, Lister introduced antiseptic surgery,...
Once upon a time, there was a banana plant.
This banana plant lived in an English estate in the 1830s, and was named 鈥渢he Cavendish鈥�, after the Cavendish Family who lived on this estate.
November 26th marks the 100th anniversary of a splendid dinner held at the University of Toronto to recognize perhaps the greatest Canadian achievement in science. A few weeks earlier, the Nobel...
Imagine a drug so powerful, your government didn鈥檛 want you to have it. Now, add the claim that this drug is all natural (it鈥檚 not) and that people report it cured them of any ailment you can think...
When I was growing up, 鈥渓ooning鈥� meant one thing. You would fill a balloon with water and throw it at a target that usually did not welcome such activity. Today, 鈥渓ooning鈥� has taken on another...
Electric cars are often portrayed as an invention created to solve the issue of pollution generated from the exhaust emission of gasoline cars, but the electric car has been around the block before...
As we approach the week during which the 2023 Nobel Prizes will be announced (October 2-9, 2023), it is perhaps timely to consider the events that surrounded the first Nobel Prize awarded to a...
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