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Ribs and Rosé: The Ultimate BBQ Match
A drab, dreary January in Seattle ( is there any other kind? ) could not defeat my desire to indulge in my favorite summer duo: ribs and rosé. I am done with the notion that Zinfandel is the ultimate wine with BBQ
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Ribs and Rosé: The Ultimate BBQ Match
Indian urban wetland heavy metal
A study of heavy metal contaminants in the urban lakes of India, particularly around Bangalore have revealed that attempts at mitigation meant to remove these pollutants have not so far worked and may not be a long-term remedy for the problem. I’ve provided more detail on the analysis in the Atomic ezine on SpectroscopyNOW this week, but also wanted to provide some additional background for readers and so I had a few questions for Aboud Jumbe of the Department of Environmental Science, at Bangalore University, Jnana Bharathi Campus who works with N.
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Indian urban wetland heavy metal
Foodista Q & A
We have a giant brainstorm session happening here at Foodista and I couldn’t be more excited for all the new features we are working on for 2010! We just launched our latest feature called Q&A and it’s already my new favorite thing. With Q & A, I can ask the Foodista community a cooking question and anyone can answer it. For example, if I ask the best way to cook a pizza, I may get a response back from a chef, a home cook or even a culinary student. The greatest thing about cooking is that you never stop learning no matter how much experience you have.
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Alcoholic drug discovery truths
As with much of medical science, the appearance of a fascinating research paper and an accompanying press release do not usually mean that a new pharmaceutical intervention, a medicine, is ready to be prescribed to patients on the very day that the paper appears.
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Alcoholic drug discovery truths
Chemophobia and risk
As a chemist by training, I’ve always been loath to give credence to unfounded criticism of synthetic chemicals that might stoke up chemophobia. Indeed, on several occasions I have written about how our bodies have evolved to cope with all kinds of chemicals regardless of whether they are synthetic or “natural”
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Green Gratitude
Appropriately following the holiday season, next week (January 8 through 15) is National Letter Writing Week, a well-timed motivator to show your appreciation for all those wonderful (or odd) holiday gifts. It’s also prime time to think of an old friend, a faraway relative, or a soldier stationed overseas . Millions of letters could be sent during this week of goodwill, and if you think we're about to tell you to spare the paper and opt for the trendy e-card with the pop-up bear or any other singing animal, think again
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Daily Roundup: January 7, 2010
Contaminant Crackdown: The EPA today proposed the strictest smog and ozone limits ever presented in the U.S.; if the new rules take hold, much of the nation would be in violation. Los Angeles Times No Joke: Climate-change skeptics in Fairbanks, Alaska, erected a two-ton ice sculpture bearing Al Gore's likeness. They piped vehicle exhaust through his mouth while a recording of Gore speaking about global warming played on a loudspeaker
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Daily Roundup: January 7, 2010
Tips for Cooking Every Day
Preparing food at home instead of dining out saves money, calories, and nutrition, though it takes time, effort and motivation. Finding innovative ways to put food on the table has been a challenge for home cooks for ages. Yesterday, we asked on Twitter, “Do you cook almost every meal you eat
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GMO Labeling Gets Modified
The acronym GMO (which stands for genetically modified organism) brings to mind images of giant tomatoes with questionable health and environmental impacts. GMOs are found in many products, and there was no way to know whether they were hiding in something you picked off the supermarket shelf – until now. Yesterday, Lundberg Family Farms announced that 66 of their products are some of the first to be certified GMO-free by the Non-GMO Project , a collaboration between manufacturers, farmers, and consumers.
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Green Your 2010: Volunteer
Whether you call them resolutions , goals, or lifestyle changes, there are measures you can take to make 2010 easier on the planet. This week we’re pointing out several of those actions, plus providing the numbers to back them up. Tip #4: Give Your Time Heed President Obama's call to service by signing up to help an organization that works to improve the world
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Scientists torn between cash and kudos
With ailing banks propped up by billions in taxpayers’ money and nations rolling through the mud of economic recession is it any surprise that we get mightily frustrated to hear of their enormous bonuses and golden pension pots? Of course not… But, here’s a thought… As the lines drawn between commercial and academic research become increasingly blurred, isn’t it also a little odd that it’s scientists who manage science, scrutinise the activities of science, validate the science, and award scientists their grants? In a market-driven world of consumerism with the constant pressure to perform, there seems to be a growing need for scientists to use some of the more peculiar phrases from the office of the marketing executives rather than those at the bench-face.
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The World’s Most Neglected Wines (Part Two): Enter the Dragonstone
Last year I declared the dry Rieslings of Australia to be sorely neglected; little did you know, fair Foodista blog reader, that I would not even be done with Riesling. For the Rieslings of Germany are far and away some of the most beautiful and pleasurable wines in the world.
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Cancer, pneumonia, regulations, theranostics
The 1st of January issue of SpectroscopyNOW is live: MRI nanoparticles seek and destroy cancer cells – A single nanoparticle can be tracked using real-time MRI as it homes in on cancer cells. A fluorescent dye used to tag the nanoparticle couples with heat therapy to kill the targeted cells. Naomi Halas and Amit Joshi of Rice University and their colleagues there and at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM), both in Houston, Texas, have demonstrated the “theranostics” approach in laboratory cell cultures so far but are confident that they will, one day, be able to use this approach to MRI tracking and cancer cell targeting in animals, then people
Classic musical science and Stradivarnish
It won’t necessarily be music to the classical purist’s ear, but chemists have been instrumental in revealing the secret beneath the varnish on a Stradivari violins, and the secret is: there is no secret. Antonio Stradivari is perhaps the most famous instrument maker of all time.
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Leather Smartphone Case
Carry your smartphone in style with this Colonel’s Leather Smartphone Case. This classy case is made of edge-stitched steerhide with a pigskin leather lining and accented with nickel silver hardware.
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Most useless machine ever
The most useless machine ever has rapidly become the internet’s first viral hit of the New Year. Essentially, it’s a little wooden box with a switch, but you’ve got to watch the video to see it in action: But, of course, it’s anything but a useless machine, it’s the embodiment of at least one principle of information, a combination of Boolean logical statements (you know those AND, NOT, NOR, OR things).
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10 Great Cocktails for New Year’s
What better to way to the year than with a cocktail bang! We’ve put together a list of some of our favorite classic and not-so-classic (but darn good!) cocktails for you to whip up on the 31st. 2009 celebrates the 100 anniversary of the Classic Daquiri , so we’ve started the list with this sadly misunderstood and misinterpreted libation: The Classic Daiquiri This is not the fru fru blended concoction we’ve all had at tropical beach resorts.
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5 Dishes to Bring you Luck in the New Year!
It’s New Years Eve and what better way to bring in the New Year than eating foods high in luck! Countries all over the world celebrate with different foods they feel bring luck for the coming year. Here are five ingredients, linked to recipes to bring you good luck in 2010! Black-eyed Peas -It has been a long tradition in United States to eat black-eyed peas on New Years eve. The abundance and shape of black-eyed peas, or lentils in general, symbolizes coins and wealth for the New Year. Noodles – Longer the better! Eating long noodles symbolizes long life, good health and prosperity
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Intute hot topics in physical science
Over on the Intute site in the physical sciences section you will find the December science news round up from yours truly: What’s the buzz at the LHC? – After a frustrating false start, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) finally got it up and running in its underground home at CERN on the Swiss-French border near Geneva. The scientists behind the world’s biggest scientific, announced that they had primed to energies higher than any previous particle accelerator has ever reached; beating the US Tevatron at Fermilab in Illinois by 20%.
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Daily Roundup: December 23, 2009
Breath Easier: The EPA has set a new rule on engine and fuel standards for large US ships to significantly improve marine air emissions, which could reduce nitrogen oxide emissions from ships by 80 percent. ENN Drilling Danger: Despite shale gas being considered a promising source of US energy, New York City has told the state to ban natural gas drilling in its watershed because hydraulic drilling would contaminate the watershed for the entire city.
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Daily Roundup: December 23, 2009