Squidsoap seems to be conducting a psychology experiment (details unspecified to the public) involving soap, red paint, children, a mantra (“Training Tomorrow’s Great Hand Washers”), and the viewers of a television commercial about all of the above.
Year: 2007
Mousy Off-Flavor: A Review
Mousy off-flavour is one of the wine industry’s little embarrassments, and has been since at least the 1890s, when the concept first seeped into published documents. Few have written or spoken of it plainly. Now a team of Australian food scientists is dishing the dirt on mousy off- flavour, with a study in the Journal […]
Inventors are not always apocryphal
Inventions do, usually, have inventors. The death of Momofuku Ando, the inventor of ramen instant noodles, is a reminder that sometimes the very existence of an invention’s inventor goes generally unnoticed. Like Daisuke Inoue, the inventor of karaoke (who went unrecognized for decades, but who in 2004 won the Ig Nobel Peace Prize — click […]
Historian jaywalks, police take him down
?On Thursday, just after noon, the Tufts historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto was arrested by Atlanta police as he crossed the middle of the street between the Hilton and Hyatt hotels. After being thrown on the ground and handcuffed, the former Oxford don was formally arrested, his hands cuffed behind his back. Several policemen pressed hard on […]