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Food Science Day 8: The Truth about Pink Wine
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AIM: To determine whether pink wine is just red and white wine mixed together.
APPARATUS: Glasses. Pen. Paper. Sample of food scientists.
INGREDIENTS: One bottle each of cheap red, white and pink wine.
METHOD: A glassful of pink wine was poured, and […]

My sort of gadget
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Philips Paper-like Display prototyped already! WOOOOOOOO! It’s something i will rant on about to anyone who cares to listen (i.e. nobody. where would blogging be otherwise?).
You can keep your super next-gen 4-D graphics chips and wireless sync[…]

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FOOD SCIENCE DAY 5: Feast of Flying Fruit
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Aim:To determine the most aerodynamic fruit by means of distance travelled when hurled through the air.
Apparatus: Park. Measuring Device (Interweb journalist Tom E.). Throwing Device (Interweb hardman Mark C.). The following varieties of fruit: appl[…]

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FOOD SCIENCE DAY 2: can you AVOCADO CAKE and EAT IT?
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AIM: To see if avocado is nature’s butter (2). If it is, can you bake a cake with avocado instead of butter?
APPARATUS: Cake tin with removable base, various bowls, electric whisk, blender, sieve, dessert spoon, sharp knife; 4 eggs, 12 oz sel[…]

Statistics of iTunes party shuffle
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Graphs and everything courtesy of a slashdotted article. Regular shuffle IS INDEED RANDOM and without duplicates – like shuffling a pack of cards and dealing them out. But the difference with party shuffle is that you get “with replacemen[…]

THE HEY YA EXPERIMENT
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Premise 1: The rap artistes Outkast released the single Hey Ya in 2003. It was very, very popular.
Premise 2: With its instantly recognisable into and catchy beat, it quickly became a banker in any popular music disc jockeys set.
Premise 3: So much s[…]

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Rob Schneider Movie Character Sort Of Emulated In Real Life
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And its not The Hot Chick or The Animal.
Instead its the woman with a penis for a nose in Deuce Bigalow: European Gigalo (hilarious review of film here).

Except of course this is
a) A man
b) a tumour not a penis
c) he is luckily not in a Rob Schnei[…]

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I Can See Inside You (cheap version)
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People laughed when I made a DIY endoscope*. They are laughing on the insides of their faces now, and this Vietnamese Doctor can see them. After all, what is an endoscope but a really bendy telescope? So a lot of decent lenses, a good light and somet[…]

The End Of QWERTY UIOP?
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I was always afraid as a child of coming across a kids book where a lead character would be called Qwerty Uiop. As much as I enjoyed The Phantom Tollbooth I was well aware of where this, and Lewis Carroll’s, mixture of fun and learning would ta[…]

Onion Takes On Evangelical “Science”
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Creationism – take that:
EVANGELICAL SCIENTISTS REFUTE GRAVITY WITH NEW “INTELLIGENT FALLING” THEORY

“Closed-minded gravitists cannot find a way to make Einstein’s general relativity match up with the subatomic quantum […]

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