by Anna Kuhl | Mar 7, 2025 | Blog
Sometimes the biggest scientific discoveries happen because scientists do slightly questionable things that would give today’s lab safety officers a heart attack. Take James Schlatter, a chemist working at G.D. Searle & Company in 1965. While researching...
by Anna Kuhl | Feb 24, 2025 | Blog
Picture this: You’re crushing it at Monopoly, properties stacked high, hotels gleaming on Park Lane, when someone gently taps your shoulder and says, “Hey, we’re actually playing Chess.” That’s essentially what’s happening to...
by Anna Kuhl | Feb 7, 2025 | Blog
In 1832, a cheese merchant named Joseph Livesey did something radical in the industrial town of Preston, England. At a time when beer and spirits were as common as water—often with devastating effects on health and families—he and six others signed the Preston Pledge,...
by Anna Kuhl | Jan 24, 2025 | Blog
In Australia, we’re living a paradox worthy of a medical sitcom: blessed with endless sunshine, yet somehow managing to be vitamin D deficient. It’s like having a bank account that’s perpetually empty despite winning the lottery. How did we get here?...
by Anna Kuhl | Jan 15, 2025 | Blog
In 1954, Roger Bannister did what many experts claimed was physically impossible – he ran a mile in under four minutes. The fascinating part? Just 47 days later, John Landy not only broke the barrier but beat Bannister’s time by almost two seconds. By...
