“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
“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
“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 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 Life 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
“(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
“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
“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
“If Newton had not, as Wordsworth put it, voyaged through strange seas of thought alone, someone else would have. If Marie Curie… — Roger Highfield Marie Curie 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 Science Copy Share Image
