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Pagedrift
(n.) The quiet exit of your attention from a page your eyes keep reading anyway, noticed four paragraphs later when you have to go back and find the last sentence you can honestly claim.
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Freezerhope
(n.) The faith that the unlabelled container at the back of the freezer contains something good, sustained by never opening it.
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Why Do We Tidy Before the Cleaner Comes?
You are paying somebody to clean the house, and the night before, you clean the house.
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Bagpride
(n.) The quiet private triumph of getting the entire shop into one bag, felt by somebody who will never be able to tell anyone about it.
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Why Does an Empty House Sound Different?
Without carpets, curtains and sofas to soak it up, sound bounces off bare walls and floors for longer, and you can hear the difference the moment you walk in.
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Aislefret
(n.) The anxiety of choosing a supermarket queue, immediately followed by the certainty that you have chosen wrong.
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Crumbdiplomacy
(n.) The long, wordless negotiation conducted over the last biscuit on the plate, in which everybody's goal is to eat it while appearing not to want it.
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Portelude
(n.) The blank half-second at a door you have used a thousand times, in which you have no idea whether it pushes or pulls.
Fact-based Cosmic Questions
Why Do We Blow on Food That Has Already Gone Cold?
Blowing really does cool hot food, through convection and evaporation. On soup that is already lukewarm, it does almost nothing, and we do it anyway.
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Why Is the Last Stair Always the One That Gets You?
Stumbles on stairs cluster at the first and last few steps, and the reason has more to do with what your body expects than with your legs.