The Evolution of the Sweet Tooth
From the very first time that your mother admonished your grandmother for letting you have a bunch of candy when you were under her care,
From the very first time that your mother admonished your grandmother for letting you have a bunch of candy when you were under her care,
From the very first time that your mother admonished your grandmother for letting you have a bunch of candy when you were under her care,
The battle has long raged between larks and night owls — who is healthier, wealthier, and wiser? Who has more fun? Who gets more done?
Despite myriad studies and tons of scientific insights, the answer seems clear: merits are spread and divided across the two and only personal preference makes one better than the other.
Some studies show night owls outperforming morning larks in intelligence tests.
Others seem to confirm that night owls are more susceptible to developing rotten habits, like smoking and drinking.
Onism: The name given to the feeling of realizing how little of the world we’ll each get to experience.
Anemoia: The name given to the feeling of being nostalgic for something you haven’t actually experienced.
Monachopsis: The name given to the feeling that you don’t belong where you are, that you’re not in the right place.
As granular as human beings have gotten through millennia of analysis…
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, all of these hyper focused feelings fall into one of only seven categories – the seven emotions.
Hades and Persephone had it down.
Do you remember their arrangement?
Persephone’s mother, Demeter, wanted her back above ground after Hades, Greek God of the Underworld, kidnapped her. But Persephone had fallen in love. So they compromised.
Persephone would spend four months of the year with Hades, and spend the remaining eight in the land of the living. (That’s why we have seasons, or so the legend goes.)
All a Christmas movie has to do to date itself these days is feature traffic jams and fights in mall stores over the last toy
From the very beginning of our consciousness, rest is a catch-all palliative for any number of maladies. Cranky? Take a nap. Can’t think straight? Close