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Are you a supertaster? |
| Our food preference
has roots in prehistory, infancy and psyche, writes Anjana
Ahuja |
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far as I know, I have no gastronomic nemesis. I’m
ambivalent about okra; no matter how meltingly cooked,
I can taste only soggy string. I wouldn’t knowingly
order a brace of sheep’s eyeballs, either, but I
did manage to chew on stewed chicken feet at a wedding
banquet.... | Read.. |
| Failures
aren’t mentioned in journals |
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is universally acknowledged that a single man in
possession of a good fortune must be in want of
a wife, wrote Jane Austin in Pride and Prejudice.
“Had she been a scientist she would have put
it in a different manner, and would have simply
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| What’s
a planet, anyway? |
| In
my daughter’s circle of friends, one 3-year-old
named Jared can reel off the names of all the planets.
He and his parents are pretty proud, justly in my
estimation, of this achievement. Little does he
know, however, that the lords of astronomy are working
against him ... | Read.. |
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| In
the virtual sun |
Imagine relaxing in a tiny private cove, on a lava
beach near the mists of a waterfall. The sun is
shining, a tropical bird cries somewhere in the
distance and the cares of the working world seem
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| QED:
Last
attack |
Growing influence of fundamentalist Christians in the Bush administration
and their challenge to science represented by “intelligent design”,
which holds that the Darwinian theory of evolution is fatally flawed,
indicates the rising tide of ... | Read.. |
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Dark circles, puffy eyes, dry and sallowlooking skin can
surely mean only one thing: too many late nights. Time
to catch up on your beauty sleep. So accepted is the common
wisdom that sleep deprivation affects your looks that
results of the first stu ... | 
