The “five-second rule”—a scientist evaluates whether your eating habits could make you sick
When you drop a piece of food on the floor, is it really OK to eat if you pick up within five seconds? This urban food myth contends that if food spends just a few seconds on the floor, dirt and germs won’t have much of a chance to contaminate it. Research in my lab has focused on how food and food …
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For the first 25 minutes, the Arizona Senate's floor session on March 18th was unremarkable. Then, state Sen. Eva Burch stood up and announced to her colleagues that she was pregnant, and planned to get an abortion. Detailing a deeply personal medical history of past miscarriages, Burch told her …
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