The team at periodicvideos.com has made it a point to bring the wonders of chemistry to a wider audience, creating an accompanying video about each element on the periodic table. One of their most recent videos however, crosses the mountainous barrier that separate hard science from pure common sense. Here is the concept: what happens when you dissolve a McDonald’s Cheeseburger […]
9. Troy, Turkey For centuries Troy was considered to be only a legend, a city that never really existed outside the poems of Homer, and especially the Iliad, where it is mentioned as part of the Trojan War. The legend turned out to be true only in the 1860s, when it was first excavated in […]