Am woman, learned today you can use CTRL to find it as I too wiggle it until I find it.

I have mad respect for the scientist that did this, can you imagine how much urine they had to get? I’m pretty sure part of the story was they asked a tavern for access to their urine trough or something or asked to collect the urine.

There’s a couple different chemical compounds that can activate your bitter receptors (caffeine for instance) but there are a few bitter chemicals like Phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) or N-Propylthiouracil (PROP) that have been linked to variations in a specific gene (TAS2R38). Where I used to work we used PROP strips you’d just put on your tongue to categorize participants into tasters, non-tasters, and potential super-tasters. If it tasted like nothing, you didn’t have the genetic variant. If it tasted like bitterness, it could either be not that bad or, for example in my experience, it’s really really terrible and takes some effort to remove from the tongue.

Fallout looking more and more realistic by the day…

I adored this book, the few different textures were fun too.

This is absolutely Wind in the Willows! ❤️

If you are so inspired, you can follow Nightvale’s example and begin an after-school volunteer ‘Teach a Spider to Read, Stop the Madness’ campaign.

I’ll go ahead and make the immature ZeFrank-esque comment:

“Crab eating your what now?”