Hold a block of supermarket cheddar next to a block of English or Irish cheddar and one of them is a colour that does not occur in dairy. It is…
This is one of the few food questions where two large, wealthy, heavily regulated food systems have arrived at flatly opposite instructions for the same object, and both are correct.…
Nothing Is Freezing and Your Brain Is Not Involved
The name is wrong in every particular, which is worth getting out of the way first. Your brain does not get…
Not a worm, not a snake, but a lizard that gave up its legs. Here are eleven.
1. It Is a Lizard That Gave Up Its Legs
Both halves of…
Hold Your Nose and Try to Hum
Pinch your nostrils shut, keep your lips closed, and hum.
It lasts about a second and then stops, and it does not stop…
It Is Not a Bubble Popping
The standard account for decades was that a small gas bubble inside the joint fluid suddenly collapses, and the collapse makes the noise. It…