medicine

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• Food

Pine Cone Preserves: a sweet jam made from soft young cones believed to have health benefits in Russia and Georgia.

3 years ago Ivan

3 min read

• Food

Mad Honey: the hallucinogenic honey that can sell for over $60 a pound on the black market

3 years ago Ivan

5 min read

• Food

Why we owe food regulation to a 19th-Century chemist who poisoned his colleagues

3 years ago Leo S

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• History

Hong Kong and the sad echoes of the 1894 plague epidemic

4 years ago Nathan

3 min read

• History

3.500 years ago the Ancient Egyptians used an effective Pregnancy Test!

5 years ago Adam