Imagine stepping outside on a cloudy day, feeling confident that your skin is safe from the sun's rays simply because the sun is hidden behind a layer of clouds. This common belief can be...
One of the fundamental reactions we teach in organic chemistry is 鈥渘ucleophilic substitution鈥� in which an atom or group of atoms in a molecule is exchanged for another one. Quite logically, the...
It started with the Helen Keller jokes. You could call it an unfortunate revival. Over forty years ago and following the broadcast of聽The Miracle Worker,聽jokes about Helen Keller became mainstream.
Some of the nutritional advice that flashes across my computer screen every day is outright nonsense, much of it is speckled with smidgens of science that have no practical relevance, and in a few...
Recently, a carpet burn removed the epidermis, the top layer of my skin, of my upper middle finger. It left a large open wound on my hand. Fortunately, I was close to the ocean so I could swim in...
