Can poker make you sick? How can a few herbs make your Memorial Day barbecue a little healthier? Why has the world community failed to stop genocide? “The Why Files” takes on scientific questions great and small, on the Web and in a new book. (Answers below.)
“The Why Files” has been serving up weekly samplings of science on the Internet for 13 years, which is about as long as msnbc.com has been in existence. “When the Internet was a vast wasteland, we were lucky to get out in front,” said one of the site’s creators, Terry Devitt, director of research communications at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.