The Disappearing Spoon And Other True Tales Of Madness, Love And The History Of The World.pdf (PDFy mirror)

A simpler but less colorful definition of honorificabilitudinitatibus is “with honorableness.” The Bacon anagram for the word is “Hi ludi, F. Baconis nati, tuiti orbi,” which translates to “These plays, born of F[rancis] Bacon, are preserved for the world.”

Some cosmologists today calculate that our entire universe burst into existence when a single submicronanobubble slipped free from that foam and began expanding at an exponential rate. It’s a handsome theory, actually, and explains a lot—except, unfortunately, why this might have happened

temperature just measures the average speed of atoms

Bose-Einstein condensate, the coldest, gooeyest, and most fragile mass the universe has ever known

philologically moribund “Gallia” (gallium) and “Lutetia” (lutetium), respectively, as if sucking up to Julius Caesar

The interplay of elements and drugs can even illuminate how life itself emerges from the unconscious chemical slag of the periodic table.

thallium is known as the poisoner’s poison

why thallium, element eighty-one, is considered the deadliest element on the table

Big Four Pollution Diseases of Japan. In addition, thousands more suffered from radiation poisoning when the United States dropped a uranium and a

As the disease crept from village to village, it became known as itai-itai, or “ouch-ouch,” disease, after the cries of pain that escaped victims