There is an enormous quantity of food on this planet that almost nothing can eat.
Cellulose makes up the structural walls of plant cells, which means it constitutes the bulk…
Almost every emotional display a person produces can be manufactured. Smiles, frowns, gestures, tone of voice, posture — all of them are under some degree of voluntary control, which is…
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Some archaeological claims are interesting because they are true. Others are interesting because of what happens to a suggestion once it escapes into general circulation.
The object usually called…
There is a category of object that has to be got right first time, and a large bell is among the more demanding examples.
It is cast in one piece…
The distinction worth holding is between measuring and comparing. A ruler asserts a length and can be wrong about it. The instruments below compare one thing against another, or against…
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.
1.…