The Dangers Of Vitamin Supplements Do you take your vitamins everyday? Be careful. Just as vitamin deficiency can make you sick, so can vitamin toxicity. Indeed, vitamins can be very dangerous if you take them in high quantities. What A And D Have In...
The Cost Of Smoking People give all kinds of reasons for why they started smoking, but none of them are good not even supposedly altruistic ones. While some claim that youre actually saving our overburdened healthcare system money in the long run by...
Does An Onion A Day Keep The Doctor Away? Have you ever wondered why your eyes water when you chop onions? Like Tear Gas Despite what you might think, the smell of onions is not what makes most people cry. You see, an onion gets it distinctive taste...
Oy Veins! Veins are pretty important. After all, they carry blood from various parts of the body to the heart. But for all their significance, veins are modest, too. Yours are probably content to work behind the scenes, tucked away beneath the skin....
Why Crabgrass Always Wins at Monopoly Crabgrass is an ugly, obnoxious weed that is the scourge of the perfect lawn and its perfectionist gardener. Along with being an eyesore, its also responsible for a substantial amount of crop loss on commercial f...
Timing Your Vegetables Right Veggie Insect Repellent When a vegetable is growing, it protects itself from insects by producing chemical nutrients that make it taste bad or seem repellant to predators. Some of these nutrientsin particular phytochemica...
Building Bigger Brains We humans pride ourselves on having large, supple brains. But while our brains are larger than those of most other animals, it appears that over time our presence can result in smaller-brained animals having cerebral growth spu...
Eye-Opening Facts About Fiction Literary Thinking Reading literature doesnt just flex your powers of imagination, it also expands your capacity for creative reasoning. A 2013 study at the University of Toronto has shown that reading literature is exc...
Whats So Funny? Laughter research has found that only a small percentage of laughter, less than 20%, is a sincere response to someones humor. In fact, laughter is primarily a social signal, as opposed to an emotional outburst. No Laughing Matter Peop...
Genetic Error and the Big Brain Theory When cells divide to create copies of themselves or to make sperm and eggs, there is always a chance of genetic error. Gene duplication, when a regular gene is copied twice, is one of those mishaps. Gene duplica...
NASA Wants To Teach You About Hydroplaning What is hydroplaning? Hydroplaning happens when a vehicle moves too quickly along a wet road. A layer of water accumulates under the tires; they lift up and lose traction; the driver loses control. NASA? Now...
How Far Away Is The Horizon? Heres a neat question you may have never thought to ask. How far away is the horizon? Flat Earth Think about it. The Earth seems flat from our viewpoint, and if you are in a desert or out at sea you get a sense that the e...
To Juice or Not to Juice? Nutrition Juice may be tasty, but its not really that nutritious. While orange juice is an excellent source of vitamin, it doesnt contain a significant amount of other minerals and vitamins. Whats more, excessive juice consu...
Fun Fact: Alligators Can Regrow Teeth Fun fact about alligators: they can regrow any of their eighty teeth up to fifty times. Which is pretty impressive, especially compared to us relatively dentally challenged humans: when we lose adult teeth, there...
Why Dont Humans Have Spots Or Stripes? Have you ever wondered why we humans dont have spots or stripes? Well, maybe you havent, but it is interesting that so many creatures are multicolored but we are not. Melanin Pigments Humans and animals get thei...
