Consider the plastic drinking straw: Why do we suck so much?
Maybe it's that you don't want to put your mouth where other mouths have been. Or maybe you've been sucking for so long, sucking has become your default setting. You are thirsty. You are at lunch, and your waiter just brought you a cold glass of water. Enter the straw. “What a fine liquid-extraction …
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