In November 2021, we finished our series A Chemical Hunger, where we argue that the obesity epidemic is the result of environmental contaminants, and that one of those contaminants might be lithium…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Here are some posts from this year that didn't quite cross the 'blog-worthy' threshold on their own. (Check out & as well!) I was reading about the demon...| Idraluna Archives
In the beginning, scientific articles were just letters. Scholars wrote to each other about whatever they were working on, celebrating their discoveries or arguing over minutiae, and ended up with …| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
[Content warning: Food, culture shock, milk] They say that the past is a foreign country, and nowhere is this more true than with food. The book is A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Gr…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
by Suspended Reason Pulled this together from old notes circa 2021. Reading Collin’s “Representation & Uncertainty” a few months later helped me| tis.so
I. Cholera gives you severe diarrhea, which leads to agonizing, life-threatening dehydration. Doctors long realized that cholera patients needed electrolytes, but electrolyte solutions …| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
We recently wrote a post about Maciej Cegłowski’s essay Scott And Scurvy, a fascinating account of how the cure for scurvy was discovered, lost, and then by incredible chance, discovered again. At …| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
Hello I would like to reach into your head and tear out the myths that you believe about my beloved field| www.experimental-history.com
Science education usually starts with teaching students different tools and techniques, methods for conducting research. This is wrong. Science education should begin with the scientific virt…| SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD