The smelly feet / Limburger cheese / malaria mosquito research that earned an Ig Nobel Prize (in 2006) has provoked a deeper look at smelly foot smells. David Robson reports, for BBC Future: The disgusting secrets of smelly feet Renate Smallegange is something of a connoisseur of smelly feet – and she goes to surprising […]
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Getting to the bottom of the Swiss fondue paradox – philosophically
“We review the history of the philosophy of fondue since Aristotle so as to arrive at the formulation of the paradox of Swiss fondue. Either the wine and the cheese cease to exist (Buridan), but then the fondue is not really a mixture of wine and cheese. Or the wine and the cheese continue to […]
The man who years later drove to see another 1000-pound cheese
Cheese research, by an intrepid, longtime student of cheese. (Thanks to Adam K. Olson for bringing this to our attention.) Alison Mah reports, for the Ottowa Citizen: Connecticut man drives seven hours to Ottawa to see one very large cheese Anthony LoFrisco had been waiting almost 70 years to find another 1,000-pound provolone. He just […]
Testing the Green-Cheese Theory of the Moon
Edward Schreiber and Orson Anderson once tested whether the Moon really could be made of green cheese. Caltech planetary scientist David Stephenson discussed that achievement, in Box 1 of his article in Physics Today in November 2014. In their 1970 article in the journal Science, Schreiber and Anderson compared the speeds of sound waves in rocks that were […]