“Mornings mean different things to different people. For many it’s the best part of the day when the air is fresh and the birds sing brightly. They jump out of bed at first light, make breakfast, read the morning paper and get ready for work. Others can stay fully awake well beyond midnight, but snooze
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To a supertaster like me, strong cheeses are often too much to swallow. Did you know that buyric acid is the chemical that gives strong cheeses and vomit their distinctive smell? To most people however, strong cheeses can smell delicious. Do the BBC Human Body & Mind Senses Challenge!
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Star Wars is sexier than boobsA Google search for Star Wars currently returns 38,600,000 results. Search for boobs and get 2,620,000 results. That’s all I’m saying.
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This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they’re explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago. yummy“delicious,” 1899, from baby talk. Yum-yum as an exclamation of pleasure is recorded from 1878.
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The World As I See It “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed.