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What's Inside Spray-On Snow? Fat, Fat and More Fat

What’s Inside Spray-On Snow? Fat, Fat and More Fat | Magazine

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Best Discredited Substances

Illustration: Daan Botlek

Phlogiston
In 1667, German alchemist Johann Joachim Becher identified this as the essence of fire. It was supposedly contained in all combustible substances.
Miasma
The Greeks were convinced that diseases like malaria were spread by bad smells, dubbed miasmas. Medieval Europeans combated them with incense.
Orgone
In the 1940s, psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich posited that this substance composed of sexual energy can be collected for medicinal purposes. If only.
Luminiferous ether
Descartes asserted that light and gravity...

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Alt Text: New Songs Add Spark to Christmas Canon

Tired of old Christmas chestnuts like “O Little Town of Bethlehem”? A little Metallica will spice things up.
Photo: More Good Foundation/Flickr

I suggested a number of overhauls to make Christmas more efficient and somewhat more bearable in last week’s column. This time I’m tackling the No. 1 reason so many people poke their eardrums out with straightened paper clips in December: Christmas music.

I’m not going to suggest we stop blaring Christmas tunes in every commercial district in the United States, because that would mean that Bing Crosby’s heirs might have to use their 1,800-thread-count Egy...