“(The selfsame hydrogen bonds also make water blue, because they absorb a little red from sunlight, which contains all the colors of the rainbow.)” — Roger Highfield 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. “Some retailers start taking small and early markdowns before Thanksgiving, while others wait until after the weekend following Thanksgiving —the biggest shopping weekend of the year. Still other retailers wait longer to mark down merchandise.” — Roger Highfield Copy Share
“Smells can even help us carry out tasks, according to an experiment by Martin's colleague Alison Gould. In one experiment, subjects completed a tedious “visual vigilance task” in the presence of either no odor, an alerting (peppermint) smell, or a relaxing (bergamot) one. They did better with the peppermint. Another study showed that subjects performed an unchallenging task better when… — Roger Highfield Copy Share
“The sprout's slightly bitter, sulfurous taste is meant to discourage would-be insect diners. This is the vegetable equivalent of a chemical weapon and evolved… — Roger Highfield Copy Share Image
“life span is determined by a fixed amount of metabolic activity: eat less, slow your metabolism, and you may live longer.” — Roger Highfield 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 known pure… — Roger Highfield 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 the rainbow.)” — 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, perhaps reflecting… — Roger Highfield 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 killers.” — 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 had not… — Roger Highfield 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 C. myrrha… — Roger Highfield Copy Share Image
