The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
My 13-year-old daughter just came to me and said: “I have a much longer tongue than my friends’. Does that mean I have more taste buds?” I don’t know who else to ask; can the readers help? David Wynne, West Sussex
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