Heroin comes from the seeds of the plant called opium poppy, combined with morphine. Although the opium poppy was cultivated since at least 5400 years ago, it was not until 1874 that swiss scientists decided to combine morphine with other substances in order to create more powerful drugs.
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Why do we yawn?
Although science cannot truly explain why we are yawning, there are many theories as to why we yawn, that are just yet to be proven. Here they are: [Read more…] about Why do we yawn?
Which pain is more painful? (Video)
I will give you the answer on this one right now: It’s kidney stones! Usually requiring the use of opioids to alleviate it, it is perceived as the most painful experience by both men and women who get through it. However, this introduces another interesting question: Is it more painful to get hit in the balls or giving childbirth? [Read more…] about Which pain is more painful? (Video)
What color is a Mirror?
Hoping that you might have seen the answer yourself without realizing, it will not be very hard to explain that a mirror is not colorless. At first, you might think that a mirror is a silverish-grey, because in catalogs and illustrations this is the color used to display a Mirror. You might think that colorless is the right answer because this is the color reflected. But since we live in a world where nothing is perfect a perfect mirror doesn’t actually exist, mirrors do have a color. [Read more…] about What color is a Mirror?
How much does an ebook weigh?
No, I’m not kidding. ebooks have a weight of their own. Since there are electrons involved to store the information, and most ebook readers use flash memory it is actually easy to calculate the weight an ebook has, although it is difficult to actually weigh it. [Read more…] about How much does an ebook weigh?
Website keeps you up to date on the LHC status
With all this nonsense circulating around the Large Hadron Collider it is (arguably) good to know if those (supposedly) crazy scientists at CERN managed to create a black hole that destroyed the world. Luckily, there is a website that can tell you if the world is destroyed yet.
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