Mentos in Diet Coke Explodes - An NPR investigation with video and a scientific explanation for this strangeness. If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got an experiment to do now.
I think these perfume sample cards have some great examples of graphic (and material) design. Very succinct, yet impactful branding. Plus, they get the bonus of having the product sprayed on them - very good selling tool. These were used in the quest for Katy’s birthday gift.
Jesus may have settled down in Japan - I must stress the use of “legend” in this _opinion— column. I think the most interesting aspect of this story is Jesus as a traveler, who knew many cultures. Thank you, wise Sagert Sheets, for your link to this. Japan truly is awe-inspiringly strange sometimes (I speak of their blindingly bright packaging, etc.) I would love to visit.
Today in quantitative chemistry, the lecture topic was the difference between detectors in common spectrography equipment. One detector (the photomultiplier tube) is extremely sensitive, while the other (the photo diode array) is significantly less sensitive (but cheaper). So the professor proposed the following question:
If a PMT yields a limit of detection of 2 zeptomoles (10E-21) and a PDA has an LOD of 1 picomole (10E-12), how much more sensitive is one than the other?
I said “about one billion times” and another kid said “2.” Thankfully, I got the answer right, but I got to thinking about it. I mean, this kid was 500 million off from the right answer. And he wasn’t 500 million units away from the answer - no - he was off by a factor of 500 million. He responded with “oh … whoops.”
Great idea, great photoshop - This great picture flawlessly merges images of an iPod and Swiss Army knife to give the appearance of a great idea: an iPod with flip-out multi-tools on its sides.
