A box of baking soda in the fridge or freezer absorbs odors

http://lifehacker.com/#!5583068/kitchen-myths-you-can-safely-leave-behind

This is a very clever and successful marketing ploy by the baking soda people, but the fact is that baking soda is very poor at absorbing odors. It seems to make sense, however, so lots of people have spent untold billions of dollars to put boxes of baking soda in their fridge or freezer to no effect. Activated charcoal would work much better but is expensive. Better to wrap your food and clean the fridge once in a while.

Source: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem00/chem00388.htm

Occam's razor

 (or Ockham's razor^[1]), often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae, translating to law of parsimony, law of economy or law of succinctness, is a principle that generally recommends selecting the competing hypothesis that makes the fewest new assumptions, when the hypotheses are equal in other respects.^[2] For instance, they must both sufficiently explain available data in the first place.


Often inaccurately summarized as "the simplest explanation is most likely the correct one."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill