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First We Feast’s ongoing YouTube series, Hot Ones, recently sat down with astrophysicist/TV Host/charmer, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Host Sean Evans asks the geeky questions, while both men progress through a series of various hot wings. Not only does deGrasse Tyson answer the challenge of eating every wing, even the last one made with Mega Death Sauce, but he’s making the viewer feel a bit smarter. Or, dumber… can’t be sure.
Please watch…
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M&M’s, the candy that supposedly ‘melts in your mouth and not in your hands,’ is put to the test… for science.
The Beauty of Science wanted to see what would happen if M&M’s were placed in water and filmed in 4K time-lapse. The result… watching the color slowly dissolve off M&M’s looks like something we’d see dramatized on an episode of Cosmos.
If you need to find the perfect gift for a thirsty chemist, look no further than Chemistry Drinkware.
Brought to us by Cognitive Surplus, the glassware is not only a convenient way to hold a drink, but has the molecular structure of the beverage printed on it.
So, those in the know will recognize their coffee ingredients as neochlorogenic acid, isovalerylaldehyde
furan-2-ylmethanethiol and guaiacol — while most of us just thinks it contains “that stuff that makes mornings suck less.” We’re both right.
[link, via Laughing Squid]
Lemons… they help make refreshing beverages and star in hilarious kid videos. Now, the small yellow citrus is our new favorite fire-starter.
How To Make Fire With A Lemon, brought to us by North Survival, shows us how. All we need is the fruit, galvanized nails, a copper source, wiring, steel wool and some tinder. You know, all the stuff you’d bring camping. Please watch this…
[link, via Geekologie]
Lasers… They’re not just for your fancy science fiction movies anymore. The future is now, people, and that future is cooking bacon with a laser.
Science professor, Kentaro Fukuchi, is here to show us how. The video by Munchies takes us into a laser lab, while Fukuchi programs a laser printer to cook the bacon’s fatty parts.
The result… A product that “smells like the dentist.” And, there’s no eggs to be found anywhere. Don’t throw out your cast iron pan just yet.