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... taste . For example , who has the more acute sense of taste , you or the fly ? As the cookbooks say , take ten saucers . Fill the first with water and stir in one teaspoon of sugar . Now pour half the contents of the saucer into another ...
... taste . For example , who has the more acute sense of taste , you or the fly ? As the cookbooks say , take ten saucers . Fill the first with water and stir in one teaspoon of sugar . Now pour half the contents of the saucer into another ...
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... tastes . This is only partly correct . You can distinguish many kinds of flavors , but to assist you in this you recruit your nose . Flavor is a mixture of tastes , odors , and textures . With taste alone you are pretty much restricted ...
... tastes . This is only partly correct . You can distinguish many kinds of flavors , but to assist you in this you recruit your nose . Flavor is a mixture of tastes , odors , and textures . With taste alone you are pretty much restricted ...
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... taste . The entire crew of insect gluttons and gourmets have essentially the same kind of taste organs - hairs . The fly is a marvelously hirsute beast . One usually thinks of hair as something to be combed , brushed , and eternally cut ...
... taste . The entire crew of insect gluttons and gourmets have essentially the same kind of taste organs - hairs . The fly is a marvelously hirsute beast . One usually thinks of hair as something to be combed , brushed , and eternally cut ...
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