In liverworts like Marchantia, which lives in most soggy places worldwide, the gametophyte is the dominant phase – the thing you would think of as the plant.

There are records of bitter village conflicts in which Pande families were denied the right to bury their dead in the village cemetery because the families did not obtain holy water from pedandas, and the villagers said the unpurified bodies would contaminate the cemetery.

“The Little Couple” (beginning on Tuesday on TLC) revolves around Bill Klein, a businessman, and Jen Arnold, a neonatalogist, who share a compatibility of mind and, more pointedly for the purposes of reality television, a likeness of physical stature: they are both under four feet tall.

But if Sedlar and Ales aren't the same, then there's only one conclusion to come to: they bear an uncanny resemblance to each other! We've been evading that conclusion because it seems—er—pulpy and penny-dreadfulish; but you can't get around it.