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Sweet Science - 9 February 2026

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:53:45
Publish Date: 2026-02-09 08:00:00
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Why is boxing called the sweet science when it’s obviously such a bruising sport? Also, a mother of five is baffled when her Gen Z kids use words she thought she knew. For example, they call sweatshirts sweaters, and declare that’s so aesthetic. Recording that vocabulary in a journal now could make for amusing reading for the grandkids later. And: the person on your block who’s always the first to put out their trash and recycling bins? That’s your binfluencer! Plus jammies vs. jommiesopen one’s budget, an extraterrestrial puzzle from a strange planet, cracking foxyepigastric fossa and heartspoongiacca civettashammick and shummickragamuffinI feel like a cracker, and lots more.

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