The original meaning of the word ‘corporation’ strongly hints at the idea that a firm can be regarded, in some ways (including, on occasion, legally) as a ‘person’. Could the idea of corporality be expanded to include ‘organizations’? If so, what if they eat too much – or too little? Professor Miguel Pina e Cunha […]
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Chip Crispness Experiment, then Further Food Research Adventures
“It all started in 2008, when Professor Charles Spence received the Ig Nobel Prize for his “sonic chip” experiment. Nothing to do with the Nobel Prize, but a recognition for the strangest and most absurd researches, which first make you laugh and then make you think. And in fact the study on the Pringles made […]
Food for Thoughtful Energy: Sandwich as a Triboelectric Nanogenerator
People eat sandwiches to give themselves energy. A new study explains how to get electricity from those sandwiches without going to the bother of eating them. The study is: “Sandwich as a Triboelectric Nanogenerator,” Jingyi Jiao, Qixin Lu, Zhonglin Wang, Yong Qin, and Xia Cao, Nano Energy, vol. 79, no. 105411, September 2020. The authors, […]
Consumer Acceptance of Pork Pâté Enriched with Cricket Powder
Add another study to the collection that focuses on a question of consumer acceptance of pork pâté enriched with cricket powder. This one is: “Nutritional Analysis and Evaluation of the Consumer Acceptance of Pork Pâté Enriched with Cricket Powder – Preliminary Study,” Krzysztof Smarzyński, Paulina Sarbak, Szymon Musiał, Paweł Jeżowski, Michał Piątek, and Przemysław, and […]