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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.
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Tepidence
(n.) The third reheating of a drink you have no real intention of finishing.
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Why Do We Whisper Around Very Old Things?
Nobody puts up a sign asking you to lower your voice in front of a thousand-year-old tree, and yet almost everybody does.
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Quillemency
(n.) The small mercy by which a pen you have just proven to be dead is returned to the pot rather than the bin.
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Why Does a Sandwich Taste Better When Someone Else Makes It?
You used the same bread, the same butter and the same cheese, and theirs is still unmistakably better, which suggests the flavour is not kept in the sandwich.
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Lingerstride
(n.) The deliberately slowed walk you adopt on an otherwise empty pavement so that you never have to overtake the stranger ahead of you.
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Does Time Move Slower in a Waiting Room?
The clock ticks at the usual speed, but psychologists explain why waiting and boredom make every minute feel stretched.
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Obligallop
(n.) The small, entirely unnecessary jog you perform when a stranger holds a door open for you from an unreasonable distance.
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Melodwell: The Art of the Car-Stereo Stall
Have you ever arrived at your destination but found yourself utterly unable to open the car door? You might be experiencing a sudden, beautiful bout of melodwell.