91˿Ƶ

Subscribe to the OSS Weekly Newsletter!

Searching for the Fountain of Youth

Lecture given by Dr. Joe Schwarcz

Can You Warm Up Your Body with Your Mind?

23 Apr 2026

If you concentrate hard, can you raise the temperature of your little finger? The human body has a thermostat of sorts, a way of regulating its temperature and ensuring its heart keeps beating even...

The Leggings That Promise to Fix Your Knees

16 Apr 2026

Back when I was a varsity athlete (before I became old and washed up), I spent my final season dealing with a particularly stubborn ankle injury. As it turns out, sprinting down a runway and...

Scary Videos Claim That You Are Risking Your Health by Reheating Leftovers. Are You Really?

16 Apr 2026

Bacteria are everywhere. Most are harmless but some are “pathogenic,” meaning they can cause disease. They can carry out their mischief in two ways. One possibility is that they can survive passage...

Colorectal Cancer in Younger Adults: What’s Behind the Uptick?

16 Apr 2026

It was a shock to learn that actor Chadwick Boseman had died. The rising star who played Black Panther in the Marvel Cinematic Universe was 43 when colorectal cancer took his life in August 2020....

Lessons in Going Slow: Vaccination Schedules, Tuberculosis, and What Happens When Faster Isn’t Always Better

3 Apr 2026

Earlier this year, the United States dramatically scaled back its universal childhood immunisation schedule recommendations. Under an overhaul spearheaded by US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy...

You Can’t Beat Beets!

2 Apr 2026

It doesn’t matter how good a video or an article is if you can’t get people to watch or read it. That’s why a lot of thought goes into coming up with a catchy title that grabs attention. In this...

A Simple Calculation to Determine the Quality of Your Diet

26 Mar 2026

For about 300,000 years homo sapiens has been eating just about everything that seemed edible. Plants, grains, fruits as well as parts of any creature that walks, flies, swims or crawls has...

Is Your Sauna Session Sabotaging Your Swimmers?

20 Mar 2026

Over the past few months, a not insignificant number of my male friends have asked me (unprompted) whether going to the sauna is ruining their sperm. Bold questions. Intimate questions. But fair...

Pages

Back to top