“life span is determined by a fixed amount of metabolic activity: eat less, slow your metabolism, and you may live longer.” — Roger Highfield Life Copy Share Image
“Words can calm people, can make them them fall in love, can whip them up into a frenzy, can turn them into… — Roger Highfield Fall in love Copy Share Image
“(The selfsame hydrogen bonds also make water blue, because they absorb a little red from sunlight, which contains all the colors of… — Roger Highfield Colors of the rainbow Copy Share Image
“The sprout's slightly bitter, sulfurous taste is meant to discourage would-be insect diners. This is the vegetable equivalent of a chemical weapon… — Roger Highfield Sprout Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the number of forms, or phases, of ice, water has more solid phases —nine total —than any other… — Roger Highfield Copy Share Image
“If Newton had not, as Wordsworth put it, voyaged through strange seas of thought alone, someone else would have. If Marie Curie… — Roger Highfield Curie Copy Share Image
“Retailers use various strategies, policies, and procedures in timing their markdowns of Christmas merchandise, adds Dale Lewison of the University of Akron.… — Roger Highfield Christmas Copy Share Image
“some researchers have found that eating resin or oil from Commiphora or guggulu, lowers blood cholesterol levels. Chinese scientists have discovered that… — Roger Highfield Cholesterol Copy Share Image
“Smells can even help us carry out tasks, according to an experiment by Martin's colleague Alison Gould. In one experiment, subjects completed… — Roger Highfield Copy Share Image
“They Harry Potters still enormously outnumber the likes of Petunia and Vernon Dursley in society, who just don't hold with such nonsense,… — Roger Highfield Break a leg Copy Share Image
