Posted on Sep 7, 2012 | Comments Off on Coming Soon: Scientifically Modified Potato Chips
If you, like me, are possessed with that gene that makes people eat the whole bag of chips (don't laugh - somewhere in that 100,000 words of ENCODE public relations blitzing, I saw it), there is good news; not all of science is busy curing cancer and solving the big mysteries of the universe.
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Posted on Aug 31, 2012 | Comments Off on The Science Of Beer Foam
I'm not much of a drinker, never have been. I have always assumed it was because I did competitive athletics until I was about 25, which means I was outside the age where you 'learn' to like the taste of alcohol, so I never picked it up.Older now, I can drink a beer socially and I sometimes drink a glass of red wine because the consensus says it is good for you in moderation, but I am still not...
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Posted on Mar 8, 2012 | Comments Off on Synthetic Caffeine? A New Marketing Gimmick For Organic Food
If you're an anti-science hippie obsessed with the notion that 'natural' is always superior to whatever 'inorganic' means to people who know nothing about science or medicine or food or generally what carbon-based life means, I have good news for you; you may soon be able to determine if that caffeine in your Organic, Free-Range Red Bull is really natural.What? Organic, Free-Range Red Bull...
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