To gain quick fame as a biomedical seer, explain how a person can grow slim (or fat) by drinking coffee (or tea). This newly published study gives you fodder for devising your Theory of Everything. Good luck! “Molecular mechanisms of the anti-obesity effect of bioactive compounds in tea and coffee,” by Min-Hsiung Pan, Yen-Chen Tung, Guliang Yang, Shiming […]
Tag: Coffee
A graph for those who like coffee and spiders
Do you like coffee and spiders? If the immediate, unthinking answer to that question is “Yes”, then perhaps you will like this coffee spider graph. A coffee spider graph specialist (who goes by the pen name “Staff”) at a company called Coffee Analysts explains it on their web site: Coffee Taste Spider Graphs Explained By […]
The Smell of Jazz
Would you say that Jazz music tends to go with the smell of coffee? How about Blues with leather, or Bach with peppermint? Rather than, say, fish*? If so, you’re very much attuned with the findings of a new study published in CogSci 2015 Proceedings, entitled ‘The Smell of Jazz: Crossmodal Correspondences Between Music, Odor, […]
An authoritative answer to the coffee/health question
A question may be difficult (or impossible) to really answer, but that difficulty does not prevent authoritative people from supplying authoritative answers. A November 16, 2015 press release brews up a new authoritative answer to the question “Is drinking coffee good or bad for your health”: Moderate coffee drinking may lower risk of premature death […]
“Why does coffee make you poop?” Four videos.
Several organizations try to answer the same question (a question that is laden with assumptions): “Why does coffee make you poop?” Discovery News: Nickipedia: ACS Reactions: Nathan and Rose: (Thanks to Vaughn Tan for bringing this to our attention.)
Graphene + Coffee: Most glam substance, foodstuff combined
At last, at last, it’s happened. The most glamorous substance — graphene — has been brought to bear on the most glamorous foodstuff — coffee. Details are in this study: “Molecularly imprinted coated graphene oxide solid-phase extraction monolithic capillary column for selective extraction and sensitive determination of phloxine B in coffee bean,” Haiyun Zhai, Zihao […]
The formal advance of the research on beer-vs-coffee spilling
The research on why foamy liquid (such as beer or latte) is less likely to slosh out of a cup than non-foamy liquid (such as black coffee), has now been formally published. The study is: “Damping of liquid sloshing by foams,” A. Sauret, F. Boulogne, J. Cappello, Emilie Dressaire [pictured here] and H.A. Stone, Physics of […]
Dripping: Compare and contrast – latte art Master King, Kimdaeki, Jackson Pollock
Compare and contrast these instructional videos. Each deals with dripping. You may find maximum enlightenment if you disable the sound. 1. Dripping, by a latte art master Master King 1. Dripping, by drip coffee maker Kimdaeki 1. Dripping, by Jackson Pollock
Cup-of-coffee micro-droplets surface physics, poetically
Investigator Mason Porter sent us this note, about a study he noticed: The thing that strikes me about this paper is the first sentences of the abstract — just about the most poetic initial sentence that I have ever seen in an abstract of a scientific paper. So one thing that could be interesting (to me, […]
Is coffee-drinking good for you? How to say “It’s complicated” in 192 words.
Scientists continue to struggle, or at least write, on the question: Is coffee-drinking good or bad for a person’s health? One scientist found a new way to say — using only 192 words — “It’s complicated”. That summary appears in the study: “Toward systems epidemiology of coffee and health,” Marilyn C. Cornelis, vol. 26, no. 1, Current Opinions in […]