... Olives, avocados, and peanuts are anathema to dieters There seems to be a commonsense answer why animals store fat and plants store starch Think of a fine sailboat Each piece of the boat has a function, ... a leeboard, to permit upwind sailing A boat for deep water will have a narrower shape and a permanent keel A racer will be designed differently than a cargo boat In fact, the anatomy of a boat ... mine, a critic and translator of Hungarian literature, was dumbfounded to discover that each of the tiny bones in the head of a carp had a name and a function and that at one stage of my life I had...