Is Chocolate Good For Me?
Have you heard that it is healthy to drink a glass of red wine everyday? Or that chocolate is good for you? I'm sorry to tell you that it's not the alcohol or the sugar that's beneficial; it's the antioxidants.
You could probably identify foods rich in antioxidants by the tantalizing colors the antioxidants produce: red strawberries, purple beets, orange carrots and green tea, to name a few.…
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Contact Lens Solution Linked to Eye Infections
Last weekend, an outbreak of a rare but potentially blinding eye infection led Advanced Medical Optics, a manufacturer of a contact lens cleaning solution, to recall one of its products.
On May 28, The New York Times reported that the outbreak resembles one last year linked to a lens solution by Bausch & Lomb.…
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Science Q & AQ. Time for me to clean off my desk and finish a handful of unanswered questions.
A. First, why do cats purr? Simply, they do it because they're happy, startled, or miffed. Domestic cats, along with some of the larger kitties (such as mountain lions), can purr because of vibrations in the larynx. Apparently, scientists do not quite understand the mechanism.…
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Predator, or Programmers' Prey?
If you saw any of the Predator movies, you probably remember Predator as a badass killing machine. I mean, the guy leaps out of nowhere to ambush a squad of Special Forces commandos. So if there was a video game where you actually got to wreak havoc as the Predator, that would be pretty cool, huh?
Unfortunately, the programmers of "Predator: Concrete Jungle" for the Xbox thought otherwise.…
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