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less versatile , less of a gourmet , than you . Well , this too can be tested . Try him on other sugars ; there are any number of sugars : cane sugar , beet sugar , malt sugar , milk sugar , grape sugar . Each is chemically different ...
less versatile , less of a gourmet , than you . Well , this too can be tested . Try him on other sugars ; there are any number of sugars : cane sugar , beet sugar , malt sugar , milk sugar , grape sugar . Each is chemically different ...
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... less expected , a hungry fly had less sugar in his blood than a fed fly . Then we conducted an ex- periment to test the hypothesis that some causal relationship existed between blood - sugar level and hunger . We injected sugar into a ...
... less expected , a hungry fly had less sugar in his blood than a fed fly . Then we conducted an ex- periment to test the hypothesis that some causal relationship existed between blood - sugar level and hunger . We injected sugar into a ...
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... less gob ranging in color from dirty white through gray . If squashed onto a piece of paper , all of its wonder and mys- tery vanishes into a damp , greasy spot that quickly dries to nothing . The brain is not in fact structureless ...
... less gob ranging in color from dirty white through gray . If squashed onto a piece of paper , all of its wonder and mys- tery vanishes into a damp , greasy spot that quickly dries to nothing . The brain is not in fact structureless ...
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