There is a well-documented behaviour in animals that explains the entire history of trying to keep birds off crops, and it is almost never mentioned in that context.
The behaviour…
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The family pantomime was the one theatrical event where the audience was a participant, the rules were absolute and nobody needed to be told them. Here are twelve.
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Weathering does not attack rock evenly. It finds cracks, corners and weaknesses, and the shapes left standing are whatever it could not reach. Here are seventeen.
1. The Rock Was…
Continuous novelty is tiring in a way that is easy to miss, and the cost shows up as days that were spent rather than experienced. Here are ten things worth…
Dry heat does two things to spices, nuts and seeds: it releases what was locked inside them and it creates compounds that were never there. Here are fifteen.
1. Moisture…
A balloon is a very thin sheet of stretched rubber holding back a pressure it can barely contain - and almost everything it does follows from that. Here are twelve.…