Tootfinder

Plant specimens and teaching materials that inspired Charles Darwin
and qualified him to work as a naturalist on HMS Beagle
have been unearthed from an archive in Cambridge
and will be used for the first time to teach contemporary students about botany.
The fragile specimens, ink drawings and watercolour illustrations of plants belonged to
Darwin’s teacher and mentor,
Prof John Stevens Henslow,
and have been stored in Cambridge University’s herbarium…

Livraria Bertrand in Lisbon, founded in 1732, is certified by Guinness to be the oldest, continually running book store in the world.
A quick search reveals: Osiander, founded 1596 in Tübingen. Korn und Berg 1531 in Nürnberg. Beck'sche in Vienna 1724 (but closed since 2018?), Höllrigl 1598 in Salzburg, Orell Füssli 1519 in Zürich, Cambridge University Press (and store?) 1534.
Now some of these started as print shops, but often also sold books. Anyone know a text discussing Gu…

🍰 How expectations about artificial sweeteners may affect their taste
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How expectations about artificial sweeteners may affect their taste
Elena Mainetto, from Radboud University, Margaret Westwater, from the University of Oxford, and colleagues at the University of Cambridge explored whether they could change how much people enjoy beverages containing sugar or artificial sweeteners by manipulating previous expectations about the drinks. The work is published in JNeurosci.

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