Joe Schwarcz's Cure for COVID Nonsense
Winners to be announced virtually June 9 at a free online event. In Grade 6, he was invited to a birthday party starring a teenage magician. Schwarcz has since forgotten most of the tricks performed that day, but one — a rope trick where three ropes suddenly fused into one due to some invisible “magical chemical” — he has never forgotten. He was so intrigued that he went to the school library and took out two books, one on magic and the other on chemistry. “When I tell this story, often people are puzzled, because magic and chemistry seem diametrically opposed. Chemistry is a hard s...
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