Science and the Bible don’t always get along. In fact many biblical stories are difficult to believe because there is almost no scientific evidence for them. But the story of David and Goliath is a little different, because it actually has a scientific explanation. This explanation not only makes the story easier to believe, but [...]
Archive for Myths
May
7
Paying lip service: do our lips get addicted to lip balm?
According to chapping lip legend if you put lip balm, lip gloss, or other popular lip moistening phenomena on your lips all the time then your lips will eventually forget how to stay moist and you will become reliant on external balms to keep your lips moist. This never made much sense to me. My [...]
Apr
13
Do you need to wash your hands after you go to the toilet?
Don’t steal the cookies from the cookie jar, and wash your hands after you go to the toilet were the staples of my childhood education. And I learned them long before I learned how to read and write. But what if someone told you that sometimes after you’ve gone to the toilet you shouldn’t wash [...]
Mar
2
Fighting Farts with Fire
A good friend saw matches in my bag and asked, “Do you smoke Wendy?” “No,” I replied sheepishly, not wanting to reveal the true purpose of the matches. He looked at me quizzically. There was silence. I eventually spoke, “If you light a match it takes away the smell from a fart.” There was even [...]
Feb
20
Asparagus pee: spearheading the debate.
“I don’t smell my pee,” a friend said to me a little while ago. It might be a bizarre thing to say, but it was an honest answer to my question: “Have you noticed that when you eat asparagus your pee smells funny?” On the other hand, it was a little offensive of her. I [...]
Feb
14
Vinegar: elixir of life? Or fool’s gold?
Did you know that if you hit your thumb with a hammer, putting vinegar on it will stop the pain? Well, that’s what my sister said anyway. And she read it in a magazine from the 1960’s… I’m on a search for a more reliable source of information, because in the world of home remedies [...]
Jan
20
Reality bites: Does eating bananas repel mosquitoes?
It was a lovely, balmy night. A couple of my friends were sitting outside enjoying a meal as the buttery sun began to set. Suddenly, I could feel something moving on my arm. I knew what it was straight away, and without a second thought WACK! With great satisfaction I looked at my arm: a [...]
Jan
2
Popeye: More spin than spinach
Sometimes I can’t open jars, or lift bookcases, or boulders, or obese children, and people always tell me that it’s because don’t get enough iron. So I tell them the story of Popeye. Not only did he get super-human strength from just eating a can of Spinach, he also became so strong that he managed to [...]