How the World Lost Its Taste Buds

I kept burning my toast when I was sick. I was astonished at how I’d never before registered needing my sense of smell for anything in particular. Now, I was acutely aware of it in everything I did. Apparently, a functioning nose could be very useful for not burning toast! Or other items. On the […]

Glimpses of a Pineapple Summer in the North

I just read about a guy who had rescued a girl from the ocean when he was a teenager, and a decade later they had met and gotten married. Then one day, much later, they’d realised that they had already met. Imagine that – rescuing the person you are going to meet and marry one […]