...you woke up bald?
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- Published on Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:41
So maybe you already are bald and then this is just another casual morning for you. But for the rest of the population, boy or girl, waking up one morning, with a smooth scalp can be a pretty unexpected situation.
... the Moon had never formed?
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 March 2020 17:11
I know it is pretty hard to imagine the world without the moon. This white shining object traversing the sky in the night is part of our life. But for this article we will just assume that the moon never had formed. Will there be any other differences than just a shiny object missing in the night sky?
... colours had a taste?
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- Published on Tuesday, 10 March 2020 16:29
Colours clearly impact our taste experience. We expect that strawberry ice cream is reddish and that a cake is golden-brown. If the cake is green instead, our previous experiences tell us that this is due to artificial colour. We might expect the cake to taste like apple or kiwi but not like chocolate or orange instead.