17 hours ago by Aliasandco

Une femme entre dans une pharmacie et demande de l’arsenic… - Que comptez vous en faire? lui demande le pharmacien - C’est pour tuer mon mari… - Quoi? Vous plaisantez! Je ne peux pas vous vendre de quoi commettre un meurtre! La femme ouvre alors son sac à main, et en sort une photo de son mari en tr ...

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2 days ago by Sears Homes

“In view of the fact that the scourge of diphtheria is playing havoc but a short way south of us in Rock county, it would be well for us to clean up the foul places” (Lake Mills Leader, August 22, 1895). Due to the prevalence of diphtheria in the slums, this “scourge” was described in vintage litera ...

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2 days ago by Lauren Wolf

Silly samplings from the week’s science news, compiled by Bethany Halford and Lauren Wolf. Credit: Flickr user thriol. For pigeon-free statues, lace your bronze with arsenic. [Guardian] Fracture putty: Like silly putty with healing powers. OK, not like silly putty at all, to be honest. [geek.com] A ...

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5 days ago by Marc Abrahams

As the heavens inevitably cover every mountain peak with snow, so do pigeons unstoppably deposit a protective white layer atop every outdoor statue – or so people believed. Yukio Hirose shocked and delighted the world by disproving one of these two supposedly eternal truths. He used arsenic to do it ...

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7 days ago by Garrett Fogerlie

By ELIZABETH PENNISI - AAAS - SCIENCE INSIDER Added: Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:16:19 UTC The debate over whether a bacterium can incorporate arsenic into its DNA just flared up again, with the posting yesterday of a paper refuting the idea on ArXiv, an electronic preprint archive primarily used by astrono ...

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7 days ago by Garrett Fogerlie

A new report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute paints a grim picture of state science standards across the United States. Indiana Senate passes bill putting...John Timmer - ARS Technica 61... Since Jesus resurrected, ppl who say "Christ died for my sins," when he did not really "die" at all, are ...

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9 days ago by Joseph Pitkin

By: Duane Craig Montgomery County, Md., is considering ways to deal with contamination from its oldest dump, according to this article on Gazette.Net. But first, it had to trade other land to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission for 16.5 acres of Rock Creek Park. That acreage w ...

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12 days ago by MAC

Delightful Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Jennie Walker's favorite) 1/cup Canola Oil or: 1/2 cup (1 stick butter) plus 6 tbsp butter (softened) 3/4 cup brown sugar (firmly packed) 1/2 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs (beaten) 1 tsp. vanilla 8-12 drops imitation almond extract (real almond extract can be substit ...

A Book and A Dish - marthaskitchenkorner.blogspot.com · 7 references

12 days ago by Deborah Blum

One day on Twitter, some science bloggers who began life on the dark side, in the humanities, happily discovered a shared taste for classic mystery writers. We thought we might write a series of posts, all on the same day, about the science in mystery books and so we did exactly that in December. An ...

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13 days ago by thegardeningsnail

The majority of the City water system was constructed in the 1920’s, 1930’s, 1940’s and 1950’s. Water quality problems have developed because the old cast iron pipes are rusting, often leaving an odor and brown residue in the water. These sections of pipe have also been historically prone to leaks a ...

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