Between now and the end of the year, people all over the world will be enjoying all sorts of holiday feasts, eating lots of cookies, and maybe even enjoying a sugar plum or two. In other words: it's food season, baby! And we've got a piping hot bowl of science stew for you! Don't forget to save room for desert: a big slice of butt pie!
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[Trivia Question]
Apple sweetness
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep44950
[Fact Off]
Yeast & vitamins advertising
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9105273/
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/the-healing-power-of-compressed-yeast
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015069802166&view=1up&seq=352
https://www.seriouseats.com/what-is-nutritional-yeast-nooch
Evolution of gourds
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/11/11/1516109112
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/517382
https://insider.si.edu/2015/11/dull-mastadon-taste-buds-once-helped-pumpkins-wild-ancestor-thrive/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Shark digestive systems
https://german.bio.uci.edu/images/PDF/Leigh%20et%20al.%20(2017)%20RFBF_online.pdf
https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/sharks/anatomy/the-shark-inside/
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=567
https://www.himb.hawaii.edu/ReefPredator/pH.htm
Vulture digestive systems
https://www.wintuaudubon.org/tag/turkey-vulture/
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30216294
https://www.audubon.org/news/how-vultures-can-eat-rotten-meat-without-getting-sick
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.16345
Crocodile digestive systems
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/524150
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1Hgcr4VrDNgG0RFdVYtH0H3/wonder-facts-crocodiles
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13285-super-size-me-alligators-reveal-digestive-trick/
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/55/6/986/2363554
[Butt One More Thing]
Cow butt meat