Philosophers are sometimes faced with tackling the complex issues of ‘concepts’. Over the years, as an aid towards a better grasp of ‘concepts’, various standard examples have been developed. Take, for instance, PET FISH and MONSTER BANANAS (Note: the use of SMALL CAPS is traditional in the philosophical literature when dealing with CONCEPTS). Although their […]
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Unexpected appearance of a banana in a chemical structure
This study introduces a banana into the diagram of a chemical structure: “1,3-Bis(nitroimido)-1,2,3-triazolate Anion, the N-Nitroimide Moiety, and the Strategy of Alternating Positive and Negative Charges in the Design of Energetic Materials,” Thomas M. Klapötke, Christian Petermayer, Davin G. Piercey, and Jörg Stierstorfer, Journal of the American Chemical Society, epub November 28, 2012. The authors, […]
Three Steps Toward Banana Pasta
Discoveries and inventions sometimes happen (at least apparently, in retrospect) step by step. Such seems to be true of the coming of banana pasta. First: “Unripe banana flour as an ingredient to increase the undigestible carbohydrates of pasta,” Maribel Ovando-Martineza, Sonia Sáyago-Ayerdib, Edith Agama-Acevedoa, Isabel Goñib, Luis A. Bello-Pérez, Food Chemistry, Volume 113, Issue 1, […]
Optimum temperature for using a banana to drive a nail
Of the many people who have tried to use a banana to drive a nail, some have experimented to find the optimum temperature for the procedure to procede as desired. Here is a writeup, in Japanese, of one such attempt. (HT Ralph Dearing_