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What a Simple Virus Like HPV Can Do

October 21, 2016 By Food Retro

When my doctor’s office called me back a couple weeks following a routine physical, I had a sick feeling of dread. “Irregular pap,” the doctor’s assistant said. Cervical cancer!? My mind panicked. But my mouth, fortunately, knew what to say. “What happens now?”

Filed Under: I Can't Make this Stuff Up, Science Gives Me A Hadron, Tech-Talk Stop, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Health & Home, how-to, parenting, sponsored

Why Eggs Explode but You Should Eat Them Anyway

June 17, 2015 By Olga

My friend, Olga, has guest posted here before. She’s expressed an interest in contributing more frequently, and so I’m happy to introduce her as a regular guest blogger here on FoodRetro! –Anne Since you’ll be seeing more of me on FoodRetro, I thought I’d introduce myself properly. My name is Olga. If you’re interested in reading…

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Filed Under: Kitchen Chemistry, Science Gives Me A Hadron, The Answer is 42, Tips & Tricks

Safety First? Or Are We Dumbing Down Chemistry in School Too Much?

March 16, 2015 By Food Retro

People like to quote Oppenheimer when they talk about science that has forever altered the world. “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” did inspire decades of science fiction dystopia, I suppose, and the atomic bomb did fundamentally change the nature of how warfare was waged. Physics did have its time in the sun as…

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Filed Under: Science Gives Me A Hadron, SLIDER, The Answer is 42

Why Vitamins Maybe Aren’t Such a Waste of Money

January 26, 2015 By Food Retro

The vitamin supplement industry has been a little under fire recently, with many hopping the bandwagon that in North America, with all the food advantages that we have plus a little “outdoor time” thrown in, they’re not required. All well and good, except for one thing: I’m not sure that all children in North America are getting…

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Filed Under: 1 + 1 = 3, Deep (Granola) Thoughts, Life With Food Allergies, Science Gives Me A Hadron, SLIDER, The Answer is 42

Going “Mental” at Brain: The Inside Story

November 19, 2014 By Food Retro

Do you suppose it’s ironic that I was going to go see an exhibit on the brain at the Ontario Science Centre, and ended up a near basket case on the drive there after I spent 25 minutes rolling my car down the Gardiner “EXPRESS” (LOLOLOL) way at 5km/hr? They should preserve the brains of…

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Filed Under: Science Gives Me A Hadron, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: Health & Home, learning is fun

Things I Read Thursday – 11/13 – Mutant Potatoes, Hoverboards and Comets, Oh My!

November 13, 2014 By Food Retro

Because my brain sometimes comes up with weird associations, as I sit here, writing about Things I Read, for some reason I have the Masterpiece Theatre theme song playing in the back of my head. And then I free-flow to how Sesame Street used to have a parody spoof, with Cookie Monster, which got all…

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Filed Under: Science Gives Me A Hadron, SLIDER, The Answer is 42, Things I Read Tagged With: #TIRT, GMOs, Health & Home, space, Things I Read

Debunking the Rice Experiment

September 19, 2014 By Olga

Hey readers, I’m getting all worked up prepping for conference going in a couple weeks, and that involves helping a couple people get their websites ready to go for the occasion! So I’ve got a few friends who’ve volunteered to cover for me. One is Olga Mecking, my friend across the pond. She’s been here…

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Filed Under: Science Gives Me A Hadron, SLIDER, The Answer is 42

First Aid for Cast Iron

September 12, 2014 By Food Retro

I’ve only recently started to come around to embracing the idea of using un-enameled cast iron. The biggest obstacle in my acceptance, like for many people, was the question of care. How do you take care of this strange beast, which can never be washed in a dishwasher, or with soap? And–oh em gee–what if you…

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Filed Under: Crafty Things, Frugal & Eco Things, Science Gives Me A Hadron, SLIDER, The Answer is 42, The Urban Homestead Tagged With: cast iron, diy, Health & Home, Kitchen Chemistry, restoration, The Urban Homestead

Nancy B’s Giveaway + $500 Scholarship

April 13, 2014 By Food Retro

Readers of mine, you know science is dear to my heart, and getting girls being interested in the hard sciences is something that I’m passionate about. Let me tell you up front I got no compensation for this post (excepting the participation in the giveaway); I just wanted to get the word out for a…

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Filed Under: Science Gives Me A Hadron, SLIDER, The Answer is 42 Tagged With: giveaway, Health & Home

Indian River Premium Citrus at Hale Groves

March 21, 2014 By Food Retro

When I posted about my failed grapefruit jelly experiment back in February, I made a joking comment about how difficult the white grapefruit that I love so much is so hard to find and said, “if anyone from Hale Groves is reading this… HMO, yo. I will work for white grapefruit.” It turns out that…

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Filed Under: Friendly People I Meet, Science Gives Me A Hadron, SLIDER, The Answer is 42, The Places We'll Go

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