Category Archives: Mysteries of Life

Mysteries of life: Ancient grains and all that

Posted on February 7, 2026 by Naomi

Just returned from a shopping trip with a number of necessities, one big mistake (a box labeled “chocolate chips” in which the chips, with which I was going to make oatmeal choc chip cookies, were hidden in a dry cookie … Continue reading →

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Mysteries of life: An adage falls into nonadage status

Posted on February 2, 2026 by Naomi

I’m quite sure “nonadage” isn’t a word. Still, I’m announcing proof that one adage isn’t valid. Watched pots do boil. I know this because I was in the kitchen as a pot of water wasn’t boiling and then it boiled. … Continue reading →

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Ancient boomerbust

Posted on January 18, 2026 by Naomi

From Harper’s September 2025 Findings: The world’s oldest known boomerang–made of mammoth ivory, unearthed in southern Poland forty years ago, and now thought to have been fashioned between 39,000 and 42,000 years ago — does not come back.

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