Chemistry teacher James Kennedy, of the Haileybury Institute in Australia, created this poster that lists the “Ingredients of an All-Natural Egg”. Kennedy says, “This is the last of three posters in the ‘ingredients’ series. I think I’ve made my point. I’ve exhausted it, in fact. Enjoy.” Kennedy’s posters of this sort for other all-natural products include a poster for […]
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Ormond explains, TEDxly, how they learned to partially unboil an egg
Callum Ormond explains his part in figuring out how to partially un-boil an egg— an achievement that led to an Ig Nobel Prize. Here’s Ormond’s TEDx talk: The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to Callum Ormonde and Colin Raston[AUSTRALIA], and Tom Yuan, Stephan Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William A. Brown, Kaitlin […]
Colin Raston tells of Un-boiling an Egg, and the Ig Nobel Prize
Colin Raston tells how he and colleagues found a way to partially un-boil an egg, and of how this led to an Ig Nobel Prize, in this Flinders University video: The 2015 Ig Nobel Prize for chemistry was awarded to Callum Ormonde and Colin Raston [AUSTRALIA], and Tom Yuan, Stephan Kudlacek, Sameeran Kunche, Joshua N. Smith, William […]
The egg cracked; they super-glued it; a bird hatched
The story of the cracked egg and the glue, as reported by the Indian Express on November 2, 2015: Cracked Egg Glued, and a Baby Rhea is Born! THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: An egg cracks, gets fixed with a super glue and voila, it hatches. Sounds like the script of a super glue commercial? Well, it happened for […]