"How to Dunk a Doughnut"

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The mechanics of love:

• I found a news- paper cutting from the 1930s inside it with a reader's question, "Where may I buy a copy of Aristotle's Complete Masterpiece, and how much may I expect to pay?" The answer was a model of pragmatism: "You may not buy a copy of Aristotle's Complete Masterpiece. You may expect to pay three-and-sixpence."
• One nineteenth-century "cure" was a splint made from bamboo and fitted over the penis.
• If the spermatozoa are sufficiently close to each other, they may display "synchronized swimming"... This phenomenon is used to assess the quality of bull semen.
  
• The conclusion was that making love in weightless conditions is barely feasible, but that it is made much easier if a third person is present to hold one of the bodies in place. Whales found this out eons ago, and many species use the practice to this day.
  

__ This is what happens in browning, where the kinetic energy at temperatures above 140°C is so high that protein and carbohydrate chains can form complicated new cross-links with each other, producing new materials that are both brown and tasty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantharidin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinnbarkeit

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