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The Climate Cost of Foods
Typically we only look at the sticker price of foods when deciding what to purchase ($0.29/lb for bananas? score!) however there is a cost to the environment. “Food miles” are a rough measure that...
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Kangaroos and Orange Peels to cut GHG
Raising livestock accounts for roughly 37% of global methane emissions due to human activity. Methane is considered 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of warming potential. In 2008...
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Alcohol: Liquid Courage for Animals and Us
Boys and their toys. Maurizio Porfiri, a smart dude recently profiled in Popular Science, designs some cool robotic underwater devices. He paired up with Simone Macri from Istituto Superiore di...
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From Plastic Bag to Carbon Nanotubes
Clever Australians have come up with a way to take ordinary plastic shopping bags and turn them into carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Coming up with new, low-cost, and easy to implement methods to create CNTs...
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Frack You and Your Water
The US is producing more energy due to new and controversial exploitation of oil and gas rich shale-rock formations. Seen today in the WSJ, the US looks to be the worlds largest producer of oil and...
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Wafers Assist in the Capture of CO2 (not nilla wafers)
My research involving Ionic Liquids is tangentially related to carbon capture, so I’m always interested when new alternative methods for carbon capture arise. Efficient carbon dioxide management is...
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Filming the Birth (of Molecules)
I cannot take credit for this attention grabbing title, rather Jae Hyuk Lee et. al published the paper “Filming the Birth of Molecules and Accompanying Solvent Rearrangement.” Lee and corkers used a...
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Adding to the Sea of Data
There is an enormous amount of data available on the internet (see Data.gov, Socrata, and Knoema, all of which provide an insane amount of raw datasets). Adding to that list, the Food and Drug...
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Interactive Computer Simulations for the Masses
Molecular polarity. Check out 19 different molecules, create your own molecules with varying degrees of electronegativity, and understand the effects of an electric field on the molecule. A collection...
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Herbs for Your Teeth?
Depending on how often you see the dentist, you may be familiar with the guilty feeling that overcomes you the moment he or she asks you about your soda drinking habits. Fidgeting in the chair to buy...
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