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Licking a Banana Slug Will Make Your Tongue Go Numb

2 Sep 2022

Slugs, in all their slimy glory, aren鈥檛 usually associated with food. But banana slugs (genus Ariolimax) are named after their colour, not their taste. As tempting as it sounds, don鈥檛 try to lick...

Do our brains see what our eyes see?

10 Aug 2022

For the past month, I have been road-tripping across Canada. Along the way, I鈥檝e seen vast grasslands, snow-capped mountains, and beautiful lakes. And mirages! A mirage is a type of optical...

The Magic of Butterfly Pea Tea

10 Aug 2022

The scientific name for the Butterfly Pea plant is聽Clitoria ternatea,聽which sounds exactly like what you may be thinking: female genitalia. In fact, its name was inspired by the resemblance of its...

Nail Polish that Smells like Cheese

9 Aug 2022

Food-scented beauty products first appeared in the late 1930s when customers were enticed by Harriet Hubbard Ayer鈥檚 clove-scented lipstick, Demeter鈥檚 pizza-scented perfume, and banana-scented...

Sri Lanka and Organic Farming?

29 Jul 2022

Nicknamed the teardrop of India for its distinctive shape, the island of Sri Lanka off the southeast coast of the subcontinent has dug itself into an economic hole. In April of 2021, Sri Lanka鈥檚...

Cloudy with a Chance of Wagyu Beef

28 Jul 2022

In the film 鈥淐loudy with a Chance of Meatballs鈥 the 鈥淔lint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator,鈥 or the FLDSMDFR, is designed to convert water molecules into food molecules,...

Montreal vs Toronto Metro: Rubber or Steel?

21 Jul 2022

I moved to Montreal this year after living in Toronto my entire life. In my opinion, one thing Montreal truly does better is the Metro. It鈥檚 cleaner, there are more useful lines and even the colour...

What Makes the Perfect Polish?

13 Jul 2022

I got my nails done for my convocation ceremony. My friends and I were greeted with a number of options: basic, shellac, acrylic鈥 not to mention the selection of colours we had to choose from as...

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