Scientists don't know what food is. Wait…what?

Protein, fat, carbs, water - these make up the majority of weight in food. But the vast majority of total compounds in food are a complete mystery.

99.4% of the molecules in your fridge are "nutritional dark matter."

And this mystery material likely holds the key to understanding disease risk, healthy aging, and why different diets affect people differently. High stakes!

Welp, the new field of "foodomics" - which merges genomics (genes), proteomics (proteins), metabolomics (cell activity) and nutrigenomics (diet's impact on genes) - is on the case.

Initiatives like the Foodome Project have catalogued ~139,000 chemicals in our food and have started linking them to specific disease processes.

Takeaway: we're a few years away from sequencing food like we sequenced DNA decades ago, which may decode the ideal diet for any given person.

You put your keys down "just for a second," and ten minutes later you're ransacking the couch cushions in pursuit of lost treasure. Yikes!

Tracking devices like AirTags are cool and all…but there's a simpler answer.

When you set something down, say where, out loud.

"I'm putting the screwdriver next to the microwave," for instance.

Saying it massively outperforms thinking it. Psychologists call it the "production effect": saying something triggers your brain to file it away more concretely.

1. You've never seen an entire movie because you blink.

2. The object of golf is to play the least amount of golf.

3. Once you have a Ph.D., every meeting you go to becomes a doctor's appointment.

4. The first person to inhale helium was probably relieved that the effects wore off quickly.

5. There are two E's in "bee," but they're both silent.