Prospector

Posts

• Carl Scheele, unlucky pharmacist
• The olm and the secret of long life
• Mistpouffers and other strange sounds
• Worth its weight in (more than) gold
• World's weirdest manuscript
• "Eh ... what's up, doc?"
• Will it be early doors for England?
• Exposed secrets of the skin
• Saint Vitus and Sydenham’s chorea
• May Day ’obby ’osses
• From Planet X to “minor planet 134340 Pluto”
• Beware the nocebo effect
• A newcomer to the periodic table
• Saint Cuthbert the wonder worker
• Meet the Gömböcs: Weebles for adults
• Celebrating the power of invention
• Möbius’s infinitely interesting strip
• Why laughter may be the best medicine
• Geodesic wonders
• Leaning edge technology in Italy and Britain
• Biometric identification: the eyes have it
• The great escaper
• Hallowe’en: a time to honour departed souls
• Victoria’s royal disease
• Shining light on marine life
• Michael Faraday, an outstanding scientist
• The brainy bunch: Mensa and Prometheus
• Saluton farmaciistoj
• Could sirolimus turn out to be the elixir of life?
• Father of today’s Olympics
• The Great Blondin and his greatest feat
• Spam, spam, spam, lovely spam
• Ask one question: do I feel lucky
• Action on epilepsy
• Harnessing the healing power of poetry-writing
• Bright future for former pharmacists
• Hair today, gone tomorrow
• Health benefits of pets, not pills
• When pharmacy and philately meet
• How expensive fakes beat the cheap ones
• Guinea pigs, human and otherwise
• That’s snow business
• Spread a little happiness …
• The first — and still the best
• Welcome to 2009, the year of astronomy
• Why gym users’ efforts to boost metabolic rate may be a waste of time
• Algae to the rescue
• The greatest quack ever
• Taking one’s pick with rhinotillexis
• A special month for pharmacists
• Pharmacists’ very own patron saints
• Seen a yeti? Tell a cryptozoologist
• Preventing the rapture of the deep
• Shrews that booze without getting drunk
• Untangling spiders’ silky secrets
• Logarithms – nature or nurture?
• How you can boost your brain power