Electrified chopsticks, soup bowls, and other eating implements can make bland food taste much saltier — much tastier. The technology was honored with the 2023 Ig Nobel Nutrition Prize. The prize, awarded to Homei Miyashita and Hiromi Nakamura, for their experiments to determine how electrified chopsticks and drinking straws can change the taste of food. […]
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Three Coins in a Fountain, and Some Salty Finger Problems
We are, all of us, in a certain sense enjoying a steady flow of research reports about fluids. Here are two of the newest items: “Three coins in a fountain ,” H. K. Moffatt, Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 720 , April 2013, pp 1 – 4. [doi: 10.1017/jfm.2013.55] (Thanks to investigator Tom Gill for […]