Our bodies are wired to avoid pain鈥攁nd yet, for millions, it鈥檚 a daily, unwelcome companion. One minute you鈥檙e climbing stairs, opening a jar, or just existing, and the next you're googling 鈥渋s...
One day in 2014, I came home from school only to see my uncle fiddling with a small cardboard box on the couch. This wasn鈥檛 any old cardboard box, but one that looked like the world鈥檚 chunkiest...
鈥淥h dear, I can just see, when I take the dogs out tonight, I鈥檓 gonna have all of these people standing around that only I can see because, you know, they鈥檙e very directional like that.鈥�
It was the 1960鈥檚 and cheese producers were cheesed off. People were just not eating enough veal. Slaughterhouses were running short of calf stomachs and the cheese industry was feeling the pinch....
In a lab in Rochester, New York, a group of scientists were trying to grow cells taken from a naked mole rat. Instead, they ended up with a petri dish full of goo. The cells had secreted a thick,...
Would you allow someone to draw your blood out, expose it to ultraviolet light, and pump it back into your body, even if I told you it wouldn鈥檛 turn you into the Incredible Hulk?
On a future field trip to Mount Royal, I imagine opening up my lunch box to find a small forest of fried insects flavoured with MSG and curry powder. On the side are some salmon rice balls. Noting...
Let鈥檚 say I am afflicted by a common but non-life-threatening condition. I shall refer to this fictional misfortune as 鈥渃hin gribbles.鈥� I have chin gribbles. Many people have chin gribbles. It鈥檚...
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