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, […]
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The carbon footprints of various sandwiches [study]
There’s a chance (as yet unquantified) that you’re eating a sandwich as you read this. If so, you might pause to consider its carbon footprint – which, it turns out, is likely to be content-dependent. That’s one of the findings of a 2018 study from Dr Namy Espinoza-Orias and Professor Adisa Azapagic of the Sustainable Industrial Systems […]
The bad news sandwich
To set the scene, an Improbable joke. Doctor : “Ah, Mr. Smith, we have some good news and some bad news, which do you want first?” Mr. Smith : “Gimme the bad news doc.” Doctor : “We amputated the wrong foot.” Mr. Smith : “Agggggh ! – And the good news?” Doctor: “The other one’s […]
The Creation of the World’s First Peanut Butter and Jellyfish
An experiment done partly in jest produces intriguing data: “The Creation of the World’s First Peanut Butter and Jellyfish,” P. Zelda Montoya and Barrett L. Christie, Drum and Croaker, vol. 45, January 2014, pp. 14-18. The authors, at the The Dallas Zoo and Children’s Aquarium at Fair Park, report: “The use of novel feed items […]
Sandwiches & the Sectional Quality of Sacred Space
Sandwiches and architecture come (or perhaps go) together, as described in the Edible Geography blog: I picked up my copy of Sandwich, a supplement to the Fall 2010 issue of Meatpaper. Nestled between an interview with the 11th Earl of Sandwich (the 4th Earl is credited with popularising the consumption of meat between bread) and a meditation […]