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Articles Written by: C. CLAIBORNE RAY
Q. I have a soft-drink bottle cap with a trivia item printed inside that says that if a sheep and a goat mate, the offspring is a geep. Can this be true?
A. It is sort of true. A geep is not actually an offspring of the sexual mating of one sheep and ...
Q. Lemons have lots of seeds, and most oranges, too. But I’ve never encountered a seed in a lime. Why?
A. The Tahiti or Persian lime you usually buy is a species that does not have seeds “because it is what we call a triploid,” said Fred G. Gmitter Jr. ...
Q. Why do some people get a sore arm at the site of a flu vaccine injection while others do not?
A. “The short answer is that we don’t know for sure,” said Dr. E. Yoko Furuya, assistant director of epidemiology at NewYork-Presbyterian ...
A. Vertigo is a symptom associated with multiple brain and inner-ear disorders, many of them treatable and possibly curable, said Dr. Dara G. Jamieson, associate professor of clinical neurology at Weill Cornell Medical College.
While vertigo can be ...
Q. Can people eat acorns the way squirrels do?
A. Acorns can be eaten by humans, but not raw, the way squirrels do, said Dr. Rui Hai Liu, a physician and an associate professor of food science at Cornell. Because of the tannins they contain, they can ...
Q. Why are there no calorie counts on pet food labels? How many calories should a 10-pound cat eat?
A. “There are no calorie counts on pet food since many pet foods have not been tested for digestibility and true content per cup or can,” said Joseph ...
Q. Why do identical twins have different fingerprints? Why do we have fingerprints to begin with?
A. The probable answers to both questions are related to the minute differences in the mechanical forces each developing fetus experiences in the uterus ...
Q. This summer I was bitten alive by mosquitoes, but my dog didn’t seem to be. Do dogs get mosquito bites?
A. Mosquitoes do bite dogs and can carry heartworms, said Belinda S. Thompson, a veterinarian at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell. ...
Q. Why do “normal” people talk to themselves?
A. The old joke is that it is the only way to be sure of having an intelligent conversation, but it has some real uses.
“Young children often conduct a conversation with an imaginary friend, or a real ...
A. The two addictions are believed to involve similar brain pathways, and craving for both drugs has been found in one study to be reduced by mecamylamine, a drug used to block the rewarding effects of nicotine.
But a 2006 study in the journal ...
