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Alloxan: bleaching agent?

20 Mar 2017

Listen to the following remarkable commentary I came across on the web. Here goes: 鈥淚 was just utterly shocked to have recently discovered another FDA first degree murder! When I studied chemistry...

Penis Enhancement and "Smiling Bob"

20 Mar 2017

Here is a formula for separating fools from their money. Find a condition that doesn鈥檛 pose a serious threat to health, but causes enough concern for people to want to invest in a solution. Propose...

What is "meat glue"?

20 Mar 2017

So what exactly is this 鈥渕eat glue?鈥 Rest assured that no horses were condemned to the glue factory to produce it. What we鈥檙e talking about is an enzyme called transglutaminase that allows a...

Self-Cleaning Toilets and Self-Cleaning Clothes

20 Mar 2017

Nobody looks forward to cleaning toilets. And maybe in the future you won鈥檛 have to. That may be one of the benefits of nanotechnology, a burgeoning field of science that everyone is talking about....

Composting

20 Mar 2017

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. The ultimate natural recycling process. Bury a body and after a while only the skeleton remains. What has happened to the rest? Well, the flesh served as a feast for a...

Sun Protection Products

20 Mar 2017

When it comes to health matters, scientists rarely make statements that do not begin with 鈥渕ay.鈥 But here is one. Excessive exposure to sunlight causes skin cancer! There鈥檚 no 鈥渕ay鈥 about it....

Why do lobsters change colour on cooking?

20 Mar 2017

Believe it or not, shrimp and lobster have something in common with carrots. They have a good dose of carotenoids in their body. Carotenoids are yellow-orange compounds that are quite widespread in...

Chemistry lesson for The Food Babe鈥 and everyone else #21: There is no such thing as "chemical free!"

17 Mar 2017

If you buy a chemical-free product, you鈥檙e not getting a good deal. You鈥檙e buying nothing. A vacuum. What鈥檚 a vacuum? A space empty of all matter. And what is matter? Anything that has mass and...

Why do we kiss?

22 Feb 2017

What makes us exchange saliva, sebum, bits of food and millions of bacteria with each other?聽In other words, why do we kiss?聽This is not an innate activity.聽South Pacific islanders, for example,...

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