Archive: Wed May 2017

The Internet abounds with running guides for beginners. Buy these shoes! Download this app! Do these dynamic warm up stretches! And while all of this advice works for getting you off the couch, the most effective trick for sticking to a running routine…

Miniaturized human “studying” a candy cane. [‘Pick What You Like’ from JD Hancock] Since food tasters have fallen out of fashion, scientists have had to devise new ways to check the safety of food and drugs that humans put in…

by Trevor Haynes In the late 18th century a particularly resourceful experimenter, Giovanni Aldini, saw scientific opportunity in the increasingly prevalent public executions being performed across Europe at the time. Using the corpse of a recently…