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Too much to choose

The New York Public Library has a menu collection totaling more than 40,000. Here’s a link to an 1899 Thanksgiving menu. It’s a little hard to read and way too much from which to choose.

  • Rats at the wheel? A study from Egypt concludes that inhaling gasoline vapors can lead to road rage. The fumes make people become more aggressive. Or least rats do. Keep the rats off the road:

    Amal Kinawy, from Cairo University, Egypt, examined the emotionally incendiary properties of gasoline in three groups of male rats, each exposed to either leaded-gas fumes, unleaded-gas fumes or clean air. As well as observing the animals’ behavior, she studied any resulting neurological and physiological changes.

  • Posted in Food & such, It's life.


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