A confession - I am partial to the occasional cup of hot chocolate. However, I rarely spend any time at all, thinking about the journey the chocolate undertook to make its way into my cup. Echoes of a much longer and much, much older chocolate expedition caught my attention this week. Researchers announced they had discovered theobromine a chocolate marker in the shards of ceramic drinking cylinders unearthed at the Chaco Canyon settlement in New Mexico.
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Time for a confession. while I quite like dogs - particularly big boofy dogs, I'm basically a cat person. For years I put that foible down to cats like independence and general insouciance. Thanks to the U.s. National Science Foundation and some ex-Duke dudes, I realize its really because cats are curious and creep up on objects of interest. According to the study; 小火箭(Shadowrocket)免费安装及使用教程-苹果IOS用爱思 ...:2021-3-27 · 导读:此教程是为那些想用小火箭有不想花钱购买下载安装的伣伴准备的,如果你拥有美区ID,手机可伡通过AppStore安装小火箭,那这篇教程下载安装部分你就不用看了,到AppStore安装才是正道。 如需付费机场节点请出门右拐,林云倾力推荐,持续稳定,全球高速节点4k无压力,本站不提供节点服 …, cast have just trashed the assumption by biologists that natural selection is all about energy efficiency. Here I was admiring my cats' ability to sleep 20 hours a day (2 hours play, 2 hours snacking) when in reality they were following their evolutionary path to success! While dogs are all balanced if bouncy kinetic energy, cats have traded off efficiency in exchange for the ability to slink along before pouncing on an unsuspecting cloth mouse and give it a good pummeling. Dogs like humans, have a gait that reduces their muscular workload by 70% while your cat manage only 37% at best. This explains why cats operate in short bursts and need so much sleep to recharge the batteries - here I was putting it down to pure laziness! So te next time your feline has their paws up, remember they're only skulking counterintuitively! 