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Geneticists are shedding light on why some people can't handle their beer, or rather may eschew a noble chalice of foaming chestnut ale in favour of a less challenging sweeter beverage. The genetic basis of sensitivity to bitter compounds has a special significance in evolution - scientists hypothesise that the ability to …

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  1. Greg Nelson

    Direction if possible, please

    Could some kind person give me direction as to..."the Teutonic cultural sweet tooth". Being, for the most part, of Norwegian and German extraction I'm curious about a meme dealing with a Teutonic sweet tooth. I ran a quick search but only came up with... "Tannfé (tooth-gift) was the name of a gift which was given (and in Iceland is still given) to a child when it gets its first tooth." (Rydberg's Teutonic Mythology)

    mmmm beer

    beer and boobies predominate my entire cultural landscape

  2. Nick Fisher

    A pedant writes:

    Actually the causative agent of malaria is not an amoeba, but an Apicomplexan parasite of the genus Plasmodium.

  3. Richard Russell

    Bitter experience

    So if the "non-tasters" can't detect the bitterness why is it called "bitter"?

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