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…
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…
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.…