That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles: 62 All-New Commentaries on the Fascinating Chemistry of Everyday Life
Joe Schwarcz
Language: English
Pages: 275
ISBN: 1550225200
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are
Quirks of Human Anatomy: An Evo-Devo Look at the Human Body
Lifelines: Life Beyond the Gene
The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick
The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names
investigate this further, he needed to examine other children who were afflicted with the same condition. It didn’t take him long to reach a conclusion: children with high homocysteine levels sustain artery damage typical of that seen in older men. And then, to prove his point, McCully injected homocysteine into rabbits, causing artery damage. This was enough evidence to suggest a revolutionary idea: homocysteine is a risk factor for heart disease. McCully proposed that high levels of the
hangover is actually multifactorial. Dehydration plays an important role, as does hypoglycemia caused by the alcohol-mediated loss of sugar in the urine. But, in all likelihood, the greatest contributor to the hangover is methanol. This alcohol is found in small concentrations in many beverages; it’s a by-product of fermentation. Methanol is metabolized by the same enzymes as ethanol, but the products this time are formaldehyde and formic acid, which produce the hangover symptoms. Why does this
it in the museum. Professor Wonder and Nutraceuticals I don’t think I would want to take nutritional advice from Professor Wonder. He seems to get things muddled. But maybe that’s because he’s not a real professor — he just plays one on TV. The good prof is the television spokesperson for the makers of that spongy, tasteless, presliced loaf that adorns many an American dinner table: Wonder Bread. Since many other breads vie for the same market, the people who make Wonder Bread
because as far as country and western singers go, I’m still stuck on Elvis. But I understand that Sammy is pretty hot stuff. He’s also an entrepreneur of sorts. He’s available not only on cds and tapes, as one would expect, but in a more unusual format as well. Sammy, you see, also comes in a bottle. At least, his essence does. Or it used to. Starclone was a woman’s cologne that contained Sammy’s underarm sweat. During his performances, the singer would wear a shirt with pads sewn into it. After
years earlier, after witnessing a demonstration of static electricity performed by a Dr. Spencer of Edinburgh. He immediately purchased Spencer’s equipment — a primitive version of the apparatus that makes kids’ hair stand on end, the one that we see today in virtually every science museum. At the time, static electricity was still a mysterious phenomenon, even though people had been observing it for thousands of years. The ancient Greeks observed that if they rubbed a piece of amber against cat