Bringing food chemistry to life

Get your amphetamines from gingerbread “in furno” If the coffee has to be caffeine free, maybe getting your jollies from ammonium carbonate leavened gingerbread will dull the cravings. Martin Lersch goes through the basic chemistry at his blog. As he points out the fullt text of the more recent paper can be retrieved at this [...]

A species of coffee from Cameroon is caffeine free. Read about it here http://species.asu.edu/2009_species09 where it was named one of the top 10 new species of 2009 (named in 2008) by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University. Coffee and Conservation report that the plant was was “first collected in 1983, but [...]

Links to the Texture Technologies student video contest entries for 2009. These can be found at Texture Technologies’ Youtube channel “The Texture Channel” The videos are from a number of colleges, Kansas State U, Brigham Young U, U of Arkansas, Indiana U, West Virginia U, and South Dakota State U, as well as us here [...]

From a “Lab Cat” post from May 2008.  Lab Cat was kind enough to link to this blog. This is a visually compelling look at laminar flow. This was filmed at the University of New Mexico Physics Department. You need to listen to the video to get what they are doing. Lab Cat has some [...]

Link sent by Daniel DiMuzio author of “Bread baking: An artisan’s perspective” Bread shoes. I guess they are not much use here in western Oregon during the rainy seaon. A good laugh, and multiple styles.. http://www.dadadastudio.eu/shop/?c=5 Image used under a creative common license from the Flickr page of “Endless Studio“

A great new gallery Brought to my attention by a former student – many thanks P. A special item from New Scientist all about imag[in]ing fluid dynamics. The images come from physicists at the American Physical Society’s [link] Division of Fluid Dynamics meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota. New Scientist though that these were their best experimental [...]