There is a category of living thing that is truly difficult to classify, and lichens are the standard example.
The difficulty is not that they are obscure. They are everywhere…
There is a useful question to ask about any everyday object: what did people do before it, and did they think they had a problem?
For most tools the answer…
Almost nothing about a reef is the animals. It is a structure they built, shaped by light, waves and water depth, and every part of its form is a record…
The problem is almost never a lack of good places. It is deciding between them while hungry, which is the worst possible condition for the task. Here are ten.
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Texture is not a minor component of eating. It is perceived through an entirely different set of senses from flavour, and it decides more about whether something is acceptable than…
The number on the dial describes the air. What actually cooks the food is a combination of that air, the surfaces radiating at it and whatever it is sitting on…