Coffee

Some would regard it as sacrilege, but even though I pay like $20/lb. for high quality whole bean coffee, I still add a nice drop of real vanilla extract to each pot. Coffee has a delicate flavor, but like many flavors, it is improved by the tiniest hint of vanilla.

Dirty little secret about coffee ... it only really tastes good for about 3 min. after being brewed. It's that fragile. 

There, something to think about other than the collapse of civilization going on around us. 

 

  

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"The answer" to life, the universe & everything isn't 42 (Sorry, Douglas Adams), but 1/137, known as the fine structure constant, α (alpha), a pure, dimensionless number equal to the proportional strength of the electromagnetic interaction between elementary charged particles (which is essentially everything we actually see and feel):

α = ⁠e²4πε₀ħc ⁠≅ 1/137.0

Why it has this value, very close to the ratio of two integers, and not some other arbitrary value, is a cosmic mystery.