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The Halifax Disaster

How a maritime accident led to the largest human-caused explosion in the pre-nuclear era.

Written by Alan Bellows • 04 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Great Advances in Smoking Safety

Smoking tobacco has been around practically forever, but cigarettes as a commercial product are actually a fairly rec...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 03 Feb 2006 • Read →

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Head of the Class

We seem to be getting swelled heads. Or at least bigger ones. A study published in the British Dental Journal ran...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 01 Feb 2006 • Read →

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The Death of Grigory Rasputin

If the popular (but wildly inaccurate) children's film Anastasia, the based-on-a-real-person character Grigory Rasput...

Written by Josh Harding • 29 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Cancer Assassins

In the USA and other developed countries, cancer is presently responsible for about 25% of all deaths. The human immu...

Written by Alan Bellows • 28 Jan 2006 • Read →

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New Year’s Eve 11999

Shards, fragments, and ruins are all that remain from the earliest human civilizations ten thousand years ago. Nothin...

Written by Anthony Kendall • 26 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Skipping Bombs Like Stones

During World War II, German hydroelectric dams were lucrative targets for the Allies. Not only would busting one cut...

Written by Daniel Lew • 23 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Liver-Eating Johnson

From the cloudy reservoir of history it is often difficult to separate legend from reality, and such is the case with...

Written by Alan Bellows • 22 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Urine For a Treat

A type of mushroom called Amanita muscaria grows in some parts of Siberia, and it contains a cocktail of hallucinogen...

Written by Alan Bellows • 21 Jan 2006 • Read →

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Unintentional, Unwitting Heroine

Most cells in the human body can only multiply a certain number of times, then they inevitably die. This limit is nam...

Written by Jason Bellows • 20 Jan 2006 • Read →

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