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Red Cabbage Does Not Know the Sex of Your Baby

15 May 2026

Old wives’ tales were the original social media trends. One person would try something new to fix a problem, convinced themselves that it worked, and pass the tip along to their friends and...

Double, Double Toil and Trouble

29 Oct 2025

Oh, human nature! When something goes wrong, we try to rationalize why the calamity has occurred. We try to find the cause of our illness or misfortune. Today, many people point accusing fingers at...

Say Cheese!

23 Jul 2025

It was the 1960’s 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....

See the Rainbow - How Skittles Led me to Chromatography

4 Jul 2025

As a kid, I always played with my food. After a trip to the grocery store, where my mom allowed me to select one candy to bring home, playing turned into experimentation. The candy I chose?...

For the Love of Carbs

6 Jun 2025

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette.

What Is a Molecule?

21 May 2025

Surveys reveal that only 50 percent of people questioned know that the Earth goes around the sun once a year, and only 40 percent realize that electrons are smaller than atoms. That’s sad enough,...

Roger Bacon, Gunpowder and Virgins

26 Feb 2025

In the 1960's the Dupont Company adopted the slogan: "Better Living Through Chemistry." The catchy motto quickly caught on in an era when science reigned supreme. The space race had captured...

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