Packages proudly proclaiming 'no artificial flavors' are trying to appeal to the common feeling that substances from Mother Nature are inherently safer and better than ones invented and produced by people.
It's what motivates non-human animals, human infants and probably human adults to explore and seek out new things before growing less interested in them after continued exposure.
It's not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species, including viruses like influenza, the bacteria in your gut, plants that you eat, animals that you enjoy or that provide you with meat.
What follows is essentially an exploration of consciousness in a non-human being, one that, based on the many discussions it inspired afterwards, left the audience wondering whether or not the subject in question was truly conscious.
They've been known to drown people who fail to best their inhuman strength and to catch children by the legs and pull them into watery graves, meaning no one was ever completely safe near the waters.
The alleged corpses, which had a grayish color and facial features similar to humans, were brought by Jaime Maussan, a controversial Mexican journalist and researcher who reported finding them in Peru in 2017.