Month: December 2013
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Ancient China can slide! But how?!?
Fifteenth-century Chinese engineers didn’t so much reinvent the wheel as dispense with it altogether – opting to drag heavy stones for building the Forbidden City along a slippery artificial ice road instead of wheeling them. That, at least, is the upshot of the latest analysis of a 17th-century Chinese text. Such a method would be…
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Less medicine is better!
New trends in modern medicine claim that actually less medicine can be more… (1, 2) For example the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology advised against antibiotics for routine sinus infections, which are rarely caused by bacteria and usually clear up within two weeks. The American College of Cardiology said the use of annual…
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