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Handedness looks like it should be a simple trait. It is visible, it is binary in everyday terms, and everybody has one. It turns out to be none of…
This is one of the stranger problems in biology, and it went unsolved for a long time because every intuitive answer fails. The roots are not pushing hard enough. There…
Almost all of them are descriptions, not decorations. Here are seventeen.
1. A Trade Name Means the Trade Was There
Streets named for tanners, bakers, coopers, dyers, weavers or smiths…
The least designed-looking thing in the street, and all of it is deliberate. Here are ten.
1. The Backrest Decides How Long You Stay
A bench with a back supports…
Everything that happened in a room is recorded in what you are standing on. Here are fifteen.
1. Board Width Dates the House Roughly
Very wide boards generally mean early…
The gas is dissolved, not bubbled, and it is all trying to leave. Here are fifteen.
1. There Are No Bubbles in a Sealed Bottle
The carbon dioxide is dissolved…