Tagged

health

A collection of 20 posts

food

Cornflakes of the Church

Coffee and mustard were considered sinful. So Kellogg made cereal instead.

plants

Marshmallow Plants

The precursor to today’s sweets were actually plants. And the originals could soon be back to cure you.

cosmetics

Chemical Makeup

When it comes to beauty and makeup, Queen Cleopatra takes the lead.

work

Adult Recess

The case for why grown-ups should be allowed on the swings, too.

coronavirus

Afeared and Lonely

There’s an alarming connection between illness and isolation.

covid19

Planet of the Strains

Why there are new variants of COVID cropping up and this pandemic isn’t ending anytime soon.

neuroscience

Night and Day

The circadian cycles of sickness and health

plastic

Plastic Age

An historical period characterised by the use of plastic and ecological collapse

food

Science of Salt

We have become a salt-obsessed society, but maybe we can blame our ancestors for that?

food

Personal Diets

Why are we turning out diets into personality traits?

cancer

Plant Cancer

Plants spend all day in the sun without sunscreen. Some trees live for thousands of years. Why don’t they die from cancer?

food

A Balanced Diet

Who decides what you eat? There’s a whole team behind it.

Physiology

Wanderlust

A short primer on your longest nerve

Air Fryer

Air Frying

Ever wondered how to deep-fry without oil? This is almost, if not quite, the same.

culture

Frame of Reference

Can diagnoses depend on your doctor’s mother tongue?

biology

Cheese Crystals

White spots are good: are you throwing away a perfectly good cheese?

health

Comon Cold

We’ve been catching it since time immemorial — so why does the cure still elude us?

Astronomy

Night Light

Darkness is just the absence of photons. Or is it?

Antibiotics

Infectious Cures

How does a river fight disease? By making your illness catch a cold.

biology

Exile by Oxygen

Some organisms never quite worked out how to live with it. This is the story of where they went.