Every gorge answers two questions: what removed the rock, and why did the sides not fall in afterwards. The second is frequently the more interesting. Here are seventeen answers.
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Maya Linton
The organising idea is that none of these were grown to be eaten. Each is a plant storing resources to survive a dormant season, and every culinary property follows from…
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For American kids growing up in the 1980s, Saturday morning was the best few hours of the week. After five days of school, it was a stretch of…
Almost everything strange about smell follows from two facts: it is chemistry rather than physics, and it takes an unusually direct route into the brain. Here are twelve consequences.
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There is a category of biological feature that only makes sense as a leftover, and the third molars are the most familiar example.
They appear late, typically in the late…
Sound behaves very differently in water than in air, and most of the differences are counterintuitive.
It travels roughly four to five times faster. It carries very much further. And,…