Category: General Interest
Items of general interest – for mass consumption
Fold a Towel Elephant and Impress your kids
See this page for easy to follow instructions with pictures:
A towel elephant is a cute addition to your bathroom and an incredible way to impress your guests! Cruise lines and “bed and breakfast” motels use these quite often. If you want to give your bathroom an original touch, have “Eddie the Towel Elephant” greet your unsuspecting guests and tickle their sense of humor.
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Why I like ice-cream
Fifty thousand years ago, the taste buds of Homo sapiens directed their bearers to the scarcest, most critical food resources – sugar and fat. Calories, in a word. Today, the context of a taste bud’s function has changed, but the taste buds themselves have not. Calories, far from being scarce (in First World countries), are actively harmful. Micronutrients that were reliably abundant in leaves and nuts are absent from bread, but our taste buds don’t complain. A scoop of ice cream is a superstimulus, containing more sugar, fat, and salt than anything in the ancestral environment.
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