Sometimes it’s just better not to know, but The Harvard Microbial Sciences Initiative Graduate Consortium recently hosted a workshop where students learned about microscopy by getting up close and personal with food microbes.
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Turn Your Glass of Milk Into An Allman Brothers Concert
Is your moo-moo juice a bit too boring for you? Simple science can turn that milk into a virtual backdrop of an Allman Brothers concert.
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Red Gummy Bear vs. Potassium Chlorate
Chemistry meets gummy. Molten potassium chlorate is a strong oxidizing agent that reacts violently with sugar.
How To Turn Welch’s Into Wine
Attention underage co-eds, prisoners, and hobos… Spike Your Juice is the product that you have been waiting for. The yeast-based kit ferments any fruit juice, so long as it has at least 20g of sugar per serving. No need to check the labels, as most juices easily reach that standard.
If Nanorobots Replace Food, What Will a ‘Foodie’ Refer to Themself As?
Wired recently published an article titled ‘7 Disruptive Foods Changing the Way We Eat’. Included is an interesting piece about how nuclear nanorobots could essentially make food unnecessary—therefore making the term ‘foodie’ even more inane.
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