Fact or Fiction?: Living People Outnumber the Dead
Booming population growth among the living, according to one rumor, outpaces the dead
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Fact or Fiction?: Glass Is a (Supercooled) Liquid
Are medieval windows melting?
Fact or Fiction?: Vodka and Citrus Sodas Keep Cut Flowers Fresh
Lemon-lime soda brightens those drooping bouquets and vodka gets in the way of aging
Fact or Fiction?: Chocolate Is Poisonous to Dogs
Chocolate can affect canines in different ways—from the mildly upsetting to the downright dangerous
Fact or Fiction?: Urinating on a Jellyfish Sting is an Effective Treatment
It worked for Monica on Friends, but how does the alleged remedy hold up under scientific scrutiny?
Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space, whereas the Soviet Cosmonauts Used a Pencil
The problem of weightless writing was not solved by either Soviet central planning or good old American sub-contracting, but by a private investor and a good idea
Fact or Fiction?: Archimedes Coined the Term "Eureka!" in the Bath
The famed mathematician made many important scientific contributions. Was this exclamation really one of them?
