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ACADEMIA. The magazine of the Polish Academy of Sciences | 2012 | Nr 1 (33) 2012 Taste

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Poland's royal Vasa court of the 16th and 17th centuries was dominated by Italian musicians; this makes the career of Marcin Mielczewski, a Polish musician and composer of works still performed today, all the more unusual.
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Barbara Przybyszewska-Jarmińska

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Salt is the only rock mineral consumed by people directly, since sodium chloride is an essential part of our diet.
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Hanna Tomassi-Morawiec
Grzegorz Czapowski

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The genetic components of our sense of taste have been studied and described in some depth; however, human nutrition is also heavily influenced by civilization and culture.
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Krzysztof Szyfter

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In 18th-century Poland, splendid feasts and banquets served to stress the significance and magnificence of noble courts.
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Agata Roćko

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Toe first Polish satellite was recently launched into orbit. PW-Sat, constructed by students from the Warsaw University of Technology with support from specialists from the PAS Space Research Centre, was canied onboard the European Space Agency's VEGA launch rocket.
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Jan Pomierny
Maciej Urbanowicz
Piotr Wolański

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Distilled water, stripped of its mineral salts, has an insipid taste. What is it that makes natural mineral water taste good, or gives it curative properties?
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Jakub Sokołowski

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Every child knows that 1 + 1 equals more than zero, so researchers from the University of Stuttgart were shocked by the results of an experiment in which putting together two repulsing forces created an attraction instead of the expected stronger repulsion. Can enhancing repulsion forces really result in attraction?
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Alina Ciach

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In order to understand what constitutes the specific aromas of food, we first need to study the chemical structure of their constituents. This is being done by researchers working at modern chromatography laboratories.
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Dorota Klensporf-Pawlik

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Those fantastically juicy apples sitting on supermarket shelves are not just simply nature's gift to us - they are also the result of numerous tests and ongoing scientific research.
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Artur Zdunek

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Taste is an important element in power relationships, since as Norbert Elias and Pierre Bourdieu maintained, good taste is simply the preferences displayed by groups with a certain social standing.
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Marta Bucholc

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The senses most traditionally associated with art perception are vision and hearing, whereas taste is generally linked with the culinary arts. Contemporary artists, however, rarely worry about such divisions.
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Dorota Koczanowicz

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What made you pick sociology to study at university?
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Jerzy Jedlicki

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Since the mid-19th century, the Kórnik Castle near Poznań has been the location of one of Poland's most valuable and oldest library collections.
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Magdalena Biniaś-Szopek

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