books
The Book Culinary Reactions: The Everyday Chemistry of Cooking by Simon Quellen Field The Premise This books purports to explain the hows and whys of cooking in terms of the chemistry going on. It's geared toward non-scientists as an "easy-to-follow primer." The Naming of Things It
chemophobia
Back in January, @realscientists (I believe it was @upulie at the time) was talking about nanotechnology and mentioned the growing knowledge about hazards: For example, it was only some time after we started working with carbon nanotubes that it became apparent that we should introduce protocols for working with them.
fluorescence
A paper out in PLoS ONE last month announces the discovery that a lot more fish fluoresce than we thought. 180 species of fish biofluoresce, with emission colors ranging from greens to reds: eels and rays are in the greens (λem around 530 nm) while scorpionfish and gobys are fairly
everydayScience
We tend to think of ourselves as individual organisms. Even though we're made up of thousands upon thousands of cells working together to send and interpret sensations, break down and rearrange nutrients, transport wastes, provide structure and mobility, and keep our selves humming along in homeostasis, we think
food
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="2100"] Chocolate chip cookie dough from a recent batch. [https://www.bethhaas.me/caption] I remember very clearly the first time I felt like I really was a chemist. Not just a chemistry major, but someone who thinks and
popSci
Chad Orzel of the Uncertain Principles blog announced late last year that he is working on a book about thinking like a scientist.1 In the announcement post he explained: The core argument … is that the process of science– looking at the world, thinking of possible explanations for how it
everydayScience
I am a big fan of Alton Brown. He's funny and smart, and he doesn't (usually) do things just because "it's always been done that way." Why buy a pizza stone when you can use a quarry tile? Why have a kitchen
everydayScience
I said this blog would be about everyday science, but I haven't published any posts that really fall into that category yet. So let's fix that. The Mpemba Effect Yesterday I heard that a paper had been posted to the arXiv with an explanation for the