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Wine-tasting: it’s junk science | Life and style | The Observer
“Experiments have shown that people can’t tell plonk from grand cru. Now one US winemaker claims that even experts can’t judge wine accurately. What’s the science behind the taste?” Wine-tasting: it’s junk science | Life and style | The Observer.
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Evolution helps cockroaches lose their sweet tooth, increase survival | Ars Technica
“A team of researchers from North Carolina State University published research this week looking at how the German cockroach,Blattella germanica, was able to adapt so quickly when surrounded by tasty insecticide. Sweet baits became popular for roach control in the mid-1980s, but several years later scientists began noticing a new behavioral trait: aversion to glucose, […]
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Cool Tools: Knife Skills Illustrated: A User’s Manual
via kk.org “Cooking consists mainly of three basic skills: heating things, putting things together (mixing) and taking things apart (cutting). This book is focused exclusively on the last set of skills.”
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What You Eat Affects Your Genes
purkinje writes “Tiny bits of genetic material, called microRNAs, can make their way from the food you eat into your blood stream, and change how your genes are expressed, according to a new study. A team of Chinese scientists found tiny bits of white rice microRNA floating around in people’s blood after a meal. When […]
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What You Eat Affects Your Genes
purkinje writes “Tiny bits of genetic material, called microRNAs, can make their way from the food you eat into your blood stream, and change how your genes are expressed, according to a new study. A team of Chinese scientists found tiny bits of white rice microRNA floating around in people’s blood after a meal. When […]
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High school scientists discover "undisclosed ingredients" in tea [Mad Science]
Good morning! Are you drinking tea? For god’s sake, spit it out! You don’t know what’s in there! But now, thanks to some teenage scientists, you will. These intrepid researchers found undisclosed ingredients in tea. For those of us who have always thought that tea tastes like boiled newspapers, this unsettling news won’t be too […]
