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Why Some Plants Are Weeds and Others Aren’t

Emily Upton April 22, 2014 1

Today I Found Out why some plants are considered weeds and others are not. Weeds can be defined in a variety of ways: a plant growing where it isn’t wanted, a plant that interferes

Why So Many Health Issues Stem from Problems in the Thyroid

TheMedicineJournal.com April 18, 2014 0

Our resident medical expert, Scott, and a buddy of his recently started The Medicine Journal, where you can learn all sorts of interesting facts about all things medical related. Below is a sample article

What Will Happen When the Earth’s Magnetic Field Switches or Collapses

Melissa April 17, 2014 1

Jesse asks: What will happen when the earth’s magnetic field switches? The Earth’s magnetic field protects life on Earth, shielding it from damaging radiation and moderating our climate. So the idea that it could

Can Eating Poppy Seeds Really Cause You to Fail a Drug Test?

Emily Upton April 16, 2014 1

Mark asks: Will eating poppy seed muffins cause you to fail a drug test? When Elaine on Seinfeld failed a drug test after eating a poppy seed muffin back in the 1996 episode “The

Everyone Has Hemorrhoids, and What Causes The Inflamed Version

TheMedicineJournal.com April 15, 2014 1

What Causes St. Elmo’s Fire

Scott April 14, 2014 0

Andrew M. asks: What causes Saint Elmo’s Fire? For those not familiar, “St. Elmo’s Fire” is a name for the glow that looks like blue/violet fire surrounding the top of pointed metal objects during

The Good and the Bad of Vaporizing and Inhaling Alcohol

TheMedicineJournal.com April 9, 2014 1

Can Color Blind People See More Colors When They Take Hallucinogenic Drugs?

Karl Smallwood April 7, 2014 2

Sam asks: If you gave a color blind person something like LSD or some other sort of hallucinogenic drug, would they see colors they couldn’t before? First a little primer on colour blindness from

The Cause of Muscle Cramps When You Exercise

TheMedicineJournal.com April 4, 2014 4

This is an article from TheMedicineJournal’s Dr. B. Green. Check out more from TheMedicineJournal.com here. Cramps come in four categories: True cramps, Rest cramps, Tetanic cramps, and Dystonic cramps. The most common of these

In a Transplant/Transfusion, Does the Donor’s DNA Get Integrated Into the New Host?

Melissa April 3, 2014 0

Matt asks: In an organ or blood transplant/transfusion, does the donor’s DNA get kept and integrated into the new host? Depending on the type of donation, the DNA stays for a short time, a

Exploding Head Syndrome

Melissa April 2, 2014 2

Jarred awakes from a sound sleep by a “shotgun blast, a thunderclap . . . the clash of symbols, a lightning strike or the sound of every door in the house slamming.” As with

Why Do We Need Sleep?

Melissa March 27, 2014 1

Karla asks: Why do we need sleep? It left Hamlet’s father vulnerable to fratricide, sent Alice down the rabbit-hole, enabled Delilah’s betrayal of Samson and facilitated Gregor’s transformation into a giant beetle. Yet without

How the Sun Burns Your Skin and How Sunscreen Prevents This

TheMedicineJournal.com March 27, 2014 1

Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

Melissa March 26, 2014 1

In the connected 21st century, it can be hard to imagine how, for most of history, different cultures existed in relative isolation from each other. Even as late as the 19th century, those living

Disordered Hyperuniformity – The State of Matter Found in a Chicken’s Eye

Melissa March 21, 2014 3

Despite what you learned in grammar school, there are way more than four states of matter. One possible new one, disordered hyperuniformity, was recently found in the weirdest place – the eyes of chickens.

Can Stun Guns Cause Cardiac Arrest?

TheMedicineJournal.com March 18, 2014 0

Why Toothpaste Makes Things Like Orange Juice Taste So Awful

Daven Hiskey March 11, 2014 7

You may think it might be the common mint flavor of toothpaste clashing with other flavors, but in the case of orange juice and many other things, this isn’t actually what’s going on. The

Is Eating Your Boogers Good For You?

Karl Smallwood March 7, 2014 12

Cindy asks: This is kind of ewww, but I read that eating your own boogers helps boost your immune system. Is this true? Does physically taking boogers out of your nose, putting them in