Several years of wearing purple with red could be attributed to her hypogeusia.
Nothing but links today.
About Pythagoras
http://www.astrophysicsspectator.com/commentary/commentary20041110.html
giant oysters in sf bay
http://www.sfei.org/inthenews/SF%20Chron%208-18-06%20invasive%20oyster.pdf
Walter Benjamin and hash
http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2006/06/another_side_of.html
http://www.edrants.com/?p=4078
more on the flâneur and the arcades-
http://www.othervoices.org/gpeaker/Passagenwerk.html#Arcade
Library of Unwritten Books
http://www.unwritten.org.uk/pages/about.html
and on Polar Bears' shrinking genitalia- how they figure this out, I cannot even imagine! http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060823_polar_bears.html