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Price (in $U.S.) of Franzia’s official box wine Halloween costume available for purchase on their website. The boxed wine giant has created wearable boxes of their Franzia Chillable Red wine and Franzia Sunset Blush wine. The costumes are made of soft-sided material (an improvement on DIY cardboard versions) and have little spouts on the side. In the past, Franzia provided How-To Make Your Own instructions on its site, including downloadable templates. Ok, but do you have to be 21 to order?

How fast are your tastebuds?

A. 13-15 milliseconds

B. 1-2 centiseconds

C. 1.5-4.0 millseconds

D. 30-35 milliseconds

The human body can taste faster than it can see, touch, or hear. According to Dr. Hildegarde Heymann, Professor and Enologist in the Department of Viticulture and Enology at the University of California at Davis, taste perception is swift because the tongue and mouth (assisted by the nose) are the body’s primary defenses against poison. Here’s how fast perception occurs after initial stimulation, as measured in thousandths of a second, for our four main senses:

Taste: 1.5 – 4.0 milliseconds
Touch: 2.4 – 8.9 milliseconds
Vision: 13 – 45 milliseconds
Hearing: 13 – 22 milliseconds

Put a Cork in It

If you were paid a penny for every cork you’ve thrown away, you might be able to buy a new iPhone. If you were a winery and had to pay for all those corks, well, you’d probably shudder.… Continue reading

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