08 June 2012

and the skies have been lovely

Some things that I have learned with a week full of ridiculous amounts of commuting time:


1. The molecular structures of parmesan cheese and puke are almost exactly the same. Because of this, to most humans they smell exactly the same since the human brain evolved to cut back on our smelling ability in order to make room for our increased ability to see color. There have been studies showing that when blindfolded a lot of people confuse the two. Luckily the studies stop at smelling and they're never forced to discover their mistake by eating.


2. George Eliot's philosophy of life changed drastically––from positivism to believing in the unpredictability of man and in man's self-determination––after a heartbreak over a man who never returned her love because he thought she was ugly.


I don't think she was ugly.



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