Not everyone uses used tea leaves to make supercapacitors. The authors of this study are among the people who do: “Eco-Friendly and High Performance Supercapacitors for Elevated Temperature Applications Using Recycled Tea Leaves,” Sanket Bhoyate, Charith K. Ranaweera, Chunyang Zhang, Tucker Morey, Megan Hyatt, Pawan K. Kahol, Madhav Ghimir, Sanjay R. Mishra, and Ram K. […]
Why is there such a paucity of academic literature on medieval punctuation? Is it (as Reimer, 1998, suggested) “[…] partly because there is so much evidence which needs to be studied, and partly because editors of texts have considered the effort needed to be a waste of time”? For a discussion of the subject, turn […]
“Starbucks turns coffee grinds and old muffins into laundry detergent“, says a second-hand report in the journal Focus on Surfactants [volume 2013, issue 3, March 2013, page 3]: “The method involves using a mixture of fungi to help break down the carbohydrates in the stale baked goods into simple sugars. The blend is then fermented […]
Lots of excitement there was about a surprising discovery. And then… Paul Raeburn, writing in the Knight Science Journalism Tracker, was one of the people who kicked that discovery in the knee, rendering it limp: It was startling news, but an easy story to write: Scientists have discovered a new body part! Amazing, isn’t it, […]
If you are a young man inclined to read old books about amusement for men who were, at the time the books were written, young, this book may provide some amusement. Called The Young Man’s Book of Amusement, it was published in 1856, and is now online thanks to Google Books:
Investigator Virginia Cox sent us this note: If you, like me, like dinosaurs, you have been following the adventures of paleontologist Jack Horner. He is my hero. Can you or one of your readers tell me, though, if this is a hoax? A newspaper called the Bozeman Magpie has this report: “Famous Paleontologist Jack Horner […]
We give you this day double your daily ration of studies about bread: “PROTON INDUCED X-RAY EMISSION ANALYSIS OF TRACE ELEMENTS IN THICK BREAD SAMPLES,” Mohamed Baker Al-Bedri, Ikram Jameel Abdul Ghani, Ibrahim Abdul Rahman Al-Aghil, International Journal of PIXE, Volume: 19, Issues: 3-4(2009) pp. 133-141. (thanks to investigator Tom Gill for bringing this to our […]
Old men have big ears, is the consensus of several medical studies. The most celebrated work focused exclusively on men, according with British male doctordom’s smug tradition of showing interest mainly in themselves. But in Japan and in Germany, wide-ranging investigations have made plain a long-untold half of the story: that old women also have […]