Bugle Tumble

Anita says, “Book the TGV!”

Dr Nicholas Ryba, author of this study at the National Institutes of Health in the US, said: ‘When people drink soft drinks, they think that they are detecting the bubbles bursting on their tongue. But if you drink a carbonated drink in a pressure chamber, which prevents the bubbles from bursting, it turns out the sensation is actually the same.’

The government of the Maldives has held its first underwater cabinet meeting to attract international attention to the dangers of global warming. - Telegraph

The placebo effect is not only real; its ability to deaden pain has been pinpointed to cells in the spinal cord. That raises hopes for new ways of treating conditions such as chronic pain.

Spain is the leader in new ways of generating energy — Spain’s projects are in the news (US and EU) all the time.

Apropos of my travels for the past several days.

Also known as “The Parochial New Yorker’s View of the World”

Mrs. G. has a friend, another homeschooling mother, whose twelve-year-old daughter announced one afternoon that she was too old for lifeless, white cotton underwear. As a matter of fact, she stated, she was ready for a thong.

Important reading for everybody, no exceptions.

Just the thing for collecting nuts from the public park!

We were banking on Cabel’s First Rule of Japan: if you wander around anywhere in Japan for a little bit, you will come across something interesting. (This is also Cabel’s First Rule of Everything.) So we came across something interesting.