Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin, said the following in his 1945 Nobel Prize acceptance speech: “I would like to sound one note of warning… It is not difficult to make microbes resistant to penicillin in the laboratory by exposing them to concentrations not sufficient to kill them, and the same thing has occasionally happened in...
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Frankenstein is said to be a novel that centres on science and the morality of scientific experiments, addressing the ethical consequences of unrestrained exploration. However, while those themes are, without a doubt, explored in the work, I believe it also offers a raw and passionate dissection of the relationship between...
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Duru Merey discusses the rise of shrinkflation, and why businesses prefer it to raising prices.
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Have you ever wondered about the ichorous, oozing, semi-congealed blood that is used in films? Have you ever thought about how it’s made, or the history of its creation? Well, with Halloween season fast approaching, it is the perfect time to think about both the history and the physical materials...
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