You read that right: The use of deodorant can cause you an aluminium poisoning, and with your fluorine-containing toothpaste you brush yourself into your own grave! – These and similar scaremongerings are disseminated over the Internet again and again by stupid people, only to be taken seriously by even stupider ones. And if these “facts” at [...]

While I was cutting a tomato into slices today, with a view to making a caprese, and thereby removed the green stem in the middle, I remembered amusedly the episode of “Gräfin gesucht” [1] that I had watched the other day. The desperate single count, who had also planned a Caprese for dinner, was therefore [...]