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...have their place on the tongue, and some researchers are now arguing that calcium-sensitive sites merit their place, as well. It makes sense, then, that having more tastebuds corresponds to a greater gustatory response in supertasters.The emerging field of hedonics, the study of gustatory pleasure, is determined to pin down other biological dimensions of taste. Of course, less than 25% of the population become food critics, so there has to be more than just tastebuds and genetics determining gourmandism, including a complex knot of perceptive psychology, pre-natal diet, and cultural norms. We may never reach the stage where...
Thanks, but no, I don’t want to “BBM” you. And if it feels like what it sounds like, I don’t want you doing it to me either. The only pin number I have goes to my bank account, so I’ll be keeping that to myself...
...impetuousness of youth wove a tired tale, and a young man with the calmness of a Socratic law professor called him out. “No soldier dies in vain.” It is patently stupid to argue about jewelry, so stupid that Obama now wears a flag pin out of resignation while McCain, whose detractors never really noticed what pin he wore...
...mode in this latest polemic. Unlike the grounded, tangible arguments of 2006's excellent American Vertigo--in which he roamed the U.S. la Tocqueville and painted a portrait of a nation both majestic and mad--there's an intellectual ranginess to Dark Times that makes it difficult to pin down. The object of Levy's ire is the left, or rather, "the monsters that the new laboratories of what we in Europe call Leftism and what Americans call liberalism are giving birth to." In its better days, says Levy, the left stood against evil and injustice...
...unscientific sampling of political consultants who have prepared candidates for presidential debates in years past, McCain will probably come out hot, with killer one-liners spilling from his lips. "McCain needs a hot debate," says Scott Reed, who managed Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign. "He needs to pin Obama's ears back on not being ready to be President. A subtle message from the debate has to be that this guy's not ready for prime time...