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Staying awake is hard... which is why I prefer magic beans to do the hard work for me. There are times when it feels like my sole purpose in life is to consume coffee, which means that I feel obligated to share some information about modern life's favourite bean. And I do mean that, since according to the Wiki of Pedia, ' Over 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed in the world every day .' Yeeps.  So here is a helpful, abbreviated summary of the magic bean we call 'coffee'.  Botany, a.k.a The Species You're Drinking Coffee is a flowering shrub native to Ethiopia, which coincidentally means it's from the same neck of the woods as our species ( no wonder we love it, we evolved right next to it ). There are multiple species of coffee plants, but the most significant ones from a coffee addict's perspective are  Coffea canephora  (also known as 'Robusta' coffee) and C. arabica , the two species which the majority of the world...

Occasionally I Google things (it still amazes me that is a verb now). It's one of my favourite 21st century luxuries, with a specific process that happens every time: 1. Have a question, which may or may not be an important or significant one. 2. Look it up on Google. 3. ??? 4. Knowledge acquired. It's fantastic. We in the 21st century who have internet-capable devices are truly spoiled in this way. Nearly the entirety of human knowledge is at our fingertips. So what did I do earlier with this cornucopia of knowledge? 'Pancakes.' Not how to make them. What they are, and the history of them. The process went like this: 1. Pancakes? 2. Look it up on Google. 3. Skim the Wikipedia article. 4. Knowledge acquired, sufficient to satisfy brief curiosity. So having now learned that pancakes in many forms are a staple food all around the world and that the Ancient Greeks were enjoying breakfast pancakes (which they called tēganitēs , among ot...