In the first 20 minutes of the movie Sound of Metal, the audience watches a young musician lose his hearing. As the background buzz of car motors, conversation, and birdsong fades to silence, we...
Our social media feeds are filled with buzzwords like anti-inflammatory, detoxifying, or antimicrobial. Chlorophyll water is no exception. There are countless social media posts claiming that...
About two weeks ago, hundreds of runners lined up at Parc Jean Drapeau to run the Montreal 21K race. But beneath neon-coloured running shoes and Nike sports socks, you would be surprised to learn...
Slugs, in all their slimy glory, aren鈥檛 usually associated with food. But banana slugs (genus Ariolimax) are named after their colour, not their taste. As tempting as it sounds, don鈥檛 try to lick...
For the past month, I have been road-tripping across Canada. Along the way, I鈥檝e seen vast grasslands, snow-capped mountains, and beautiful lakes. And mirages! A mirage is a type of optical...
The scientific name for the Butterfly Pea plant is聽Clitoria ternatea,聽which sounds exactly like what you may be thinking: female genitalia. In fact, its name was inspired by the resemblance of its...
Food-scented beauty products first appeared in the late 1930s when customers were enticed by Harriet Hubbard Ayer鈥檚 clove-scented lipstick, Demeter鈥檚 pizza-scented perfume, and banana-scented...
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