Alfredo Rodriguez Arzate cooks the milky latex collected from the sapodilla tree to make the base for an organic chewing gum. "Chicleros" have been extracting the sapodilla tree's latex, the original ...

Author of "Stealing Home: Los Angeles, the Dodgers, and the Lives Caught in Between," Eric Nusbaum and I discuss a popular baseball myth. Was Santa Anna’s wooden leg used to hit a baseball? Did Santa ...

The chewing of gum is a something that humans have practiced for thousands of years. Evidence exists that both the Ancient Greeks and the Ancient Mayans chewed on naturally occurring tree gums. The ...

That gum consumption jumps tremendously during examinations, that chewers are habitual addicts, and that the quantity of gum consumed by students far exceeds the popular conception are the conclusions ...

Chewing gum can be annoying to people around you and it leaves a sticky mess behind, but now researchers say it can also hamper your memory. According to experts from Cardiff University in the UK, ...

What is common between chewing gum and the telephone? Both were invented 125 years ago, and for the first 100 years, routinely performed the simple functions for which they were devised. What is ...

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The milky latex bled from the Mexican rain forest tree as Alfredo Rodriguez Arzate swung his machete, climbing the trunk with a rope around his waist and spurs on his boots. Built like a featherweight ...