The COVID-19 pandemic helped popularize a hair-raising phrase: 鈥渄o your own research.鈥� Portrayed as a call for self-empowerment, it became the tell-tale sign of someone who didn鈥檛 trust public...
Can you imagine eating 78 matzah balls in 8 minutes? That鈥檚 about 4,000 calories and 2,700 mg of cholesterol! Joey Chestnut accomplished that monumental feat back in 2008 at the Inaugural World...
Dr. Katsusaburo Yamagiwa, a Japanese pathologist at Imperial Tokyo University, and his research assistant, Dr. Koichi Ichikawa, carried out an experiment in which they repeatedly painted the inner...
Trust can disappear in an instant and take generations to gain back. The story of Henrietta Lacks鈥� immortal cancer cells is a stark reminder of that. Its loud echoes partly inform our present, as...
Sperm whales subsist on a diet of squid, octopus and cuttle fish, all of which have small hard beaks. The beaks are commonly regurgitated but sometimes may work their way into the lining of the...
鈥淎 butterfly can flap its wings in Peking, and in Central Park, you get rain instead of sunshine.鈥� That memorable quote comes from Jeff Goldbloom in Jurassic Park as he tries to explain how worldly...
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