This York University video demonstrates a classic Canadian style of narration, carefully restraining all indicators of excitement or interest: The video is titled “York Researchers send a text message using vodka,” It pertains to research reported in a newly published study: “Tabletop Molecular Communication: Text Messages through Chemical Signals,” Nariman Farsad, Weisi Guo, Andrew W. Eckford, […]
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The games and vodka of Michiel de Bondt
Scientists, most of them, do find enjoyments, even in the most serious moments. Witness evidence in the case of Michiel de Bondt, pictured here on the 7th of July 2009. Dr. de Bondt describes the occasion: On the 7th of July 2009, I, Michiel de Bondt, promoted to Ph.D. in mathematics. Thesis (electronic, without cover) The […]
Chemists’ chemist on vodka
Misha Lemeshko writes: On the 31-st of January 1865 the author of the periodic table of elements Dmitri Mendeleev defended the doctoral dissertation “On the Combinations of Water with Alcohol”. People often say that in this piece Mendeleev proved that the solubility is the best for 40% of alcohol and 60% of water, and thereby […]
Vodka and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Clathrate hydrates, much in the news because of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, are the subject of a new study on a (presumably) different subject: “Structurability: A Collective Measure of the Structural Differences in Vodkas,” Naiping Hu, Dan Wu, Kelly Cross, Sergey Burikov, Tatiana Dolenko, Svetlana Patsaeva and Dale W. Schaefer, Journal of Agriculture […]