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Hello! You are on the channel Nature & Science, thanks for reading me! Let's get to know the world together! Each of your likes and comments is very important to me! The article is subjective and expresses the personal opinion of the author. After a restaurant meal, do you appreciate an after-dinner mint? Do you like mint-flavored toothpaste? Are you a fan of chocolate-mint ice cream or chocolate-mint cookies? What do you think of mint tea? Would you be willing to try an apple-mint smoothie? The...

Hello! You are on the channel Nature & Science, thanks for reading me! Let's get to know the world together! Each of your likes and comments is very important to me! The article is subjective and expresses the personal opinion of the author. A large chunk of granite sits in the soil, not very deep — only a few feet down — but out of sight of any passers-by. Such chunks of granite are common around here, in this portion of the piedmont of the southern Appalachians. I imagine that chunk of granite resting there, pondering the meaning of life...

Hello! You are on the channel Nature & Science, thanks for reading me! Let's get to know the world together! Each of your likes and comments is very important to me! The article is subjective and expresses the personal opinion of the author. How would you define the relationship between information and education? How does our perception of this relationship affect the ways that we learn and teach? And how does this relationship affect our ability to think — especially our ability to think in creative...

Hello! You are on the channel Nature & Science, thanks for reading me! Let's get to know the world together! Each of your likes and comments is very important to me! The article is subjective and expresses the personal opinion of the author. What do tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers have in common? One obvious answer is that these are all food plants. We can grow these plants in farm fields or home gardens and then collect the edible results. Or we can visit a grocery to purchase fresh produce from these plants...

Hello! You are on the channel Nature & Science, thanks for reading me! Let's get to know the world together! Each of your likes and comments is very important to me! The article is subjective and expresses the personal opinion of the author. To most people, it seems self-evident that a virus is some kind of living creature. We usually put viruses into the same mental category as bacteria — a category that we popularly call “germs”. We think of all germs as being somewhat alike, because we picture them as microscopic organisms that cause diseases...

Hello! You are on the channel Nature & Science, thanks for reading me! Let's get to know the world together! Each of your likes and comments is very important to me! The article is subjective and expresses the personal opinion of the author. Prior to my first visit to Australia, I told a great number of people about my upcoming plans. A typical response was to mention toilet bowls — specifically, the direction that the water swirls when you flush the toilet. Sometimes the response involved a sink or a bathtub, but usually a toilet...

Hello! You are on the channel Nature & Science, thanks for reading me! Let's get to know the world together! Each of your likes and comments is very important to me! The article is subjective and expresses the personal opinion of the author. In recent years you have probably heard news reports about the poor health of bees in North America. There have been several competing hypotheses as to the source of the problem — but the best evidence suggests that multiple factors are involved. Some people...

Hello! You are on the channel Nature & Science, thanks for reading me! Let's get to know the world together! Each of your likes and comments is very important to me! The article is subjective and expresses the personal opinion of the author. Your stomach and small intestine, working in tandem, constitute the ultimate recycling center. All manner of things come sliding down that long chute from the mouth. When this material lands in the stomach, then the countdown begins. The industrious crew of enzymes is given a limited amount of time to disassemble all that junk into its component parts...

Hello! You are on the channel Nature & Science, thanks for reading me! Let's get to know the world together! Each of your likes and comments is very important to me! The article is subjective and expresses the personal opinion of the author. If you look at a map of Africa, the tiny country of Togo appears to be a strange anomaly. The entire country is just a little sliver, wedged between larger neighbors. Some of those neighbors — such as Nigeria — are much, much bigger. Because of its small size,...

Hello! You are on the channel Nature & Science, thanks for reading me! Let's get to know the world together! Each of your likes and comments is very important to me! The article is subjective and expresses the personal opinion of the author. What do the following all have in common: cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collard greens, Brussels sprouts, kohlrabi, and savoy? Yes, they are all vegetables — but what else? You might have guessed that they are all in the same botanical family, which is true, but they are much more closely related than that...

Hello! You are on the channel Nature & Science, thanks for reading me! Let's get to know the world together! Each of your likes and comments is very important to me! The article is subjective and expresses the personal opinion of the author. I recently encountered a fascinating line of thought on the internet. Someone claimed that greenhouse gases are a myth, and he presented a simple argument to explain why. He said that if greenhouse gases actually trapped heat, then instead of warming the earth...

Hello! You are on the channel Nature & Science, thanks for reading me! Let's get to know the world together! Each of your likes and comments is very important to me! The article is subjective and expresses the personal opinion of the author. Most of us have encountered the oft-repeated question “Is the tomato a fruit?” or the similar question “Is the tomato a fruit or a vegetable?” These two questions appear to be nearly identical, and yet they are actually quite different. The best answer to the first question is “Yes, the tomato is a fruit...