Chemistry

Your Meat Does Not Bleed- But That People Think It Does Is Important For Plant-Based Substitutes

If you have cooked a steak or a hamburger you know that by the time you are ready to serve it, and certainly after you cut or bite into it, there will be liquid that oozes out of it.  Anti-meat groups know it isn't blood(1) but they use that imagery t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 29 2023 - 1:35pm

Dating A Vampire Hunter? Here Is How To Get Rid Of That Garlic Breath

Halloween is the time of year when you are most likely to find out your significant other is a vampire- or vampire hunter. Sure, vampires can't be real and never have been, there can't really be hunters for those any more than there are ghost hun ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 30 2023 - 11:23am

Are Trace Chemicals In Shiny Hair Products Killing You?

The dose makes the poison, except in academic epidemiology, where H-Index and citations necessitate writing papers claiming any dose is toxic. This is why EXPLORATORY claims aren't actually science itself. When your only method is to ask people what p ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 29 2023 - 3:30pm

Weekend Science: Coffee And Static Electricity- Is Water The Answer Or A Grinding Mess?

In some homes, it is believed that static electricity can lead to inferior grinding, and that has coffee connoisseurs searching for answers. Will water help, or is it just making a mess because while a little may help, people will use too much?  Coffee is ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 26 2023 - 2:21pm

Did Environmental Working Group Manufacture A Study Just To Sue Quaker Oats?

On February 15th, the litigation outfit known as Environmental Working Group, most famous for using public USDA data (although excluding pesticides from the organic food companies which fund them) to compile a 'Dirty Dozen list' of foods which co ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 21 2024 - 10:34pm

Weekend Science: 1840s Shipwreck Leads To Important Beer Science Discovery

The Paleo diet is all made up, organic food just accepts one kind of genetic modification in its modern food over another, but booze? Yeah, scientists can really show how that was different in the past. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 4 2024 - 10:44am

Mitochondria- The Chemists' Organelle

I am writing a book on mitochondria and after a few months of research you begin to see a common thread- serendipity.  Sometimes big things happen because of what seems to be luck, a group of people all happen to be in one place at one time, they are all s ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 6 2024 - 10:07am

The Science Of Beer Foam

I'm not much of a drinker, never have been. I have always assumed it was because I did competitive athletics until I was about 25, which means I was outside the age where you 'learn' to like the taste of alcohol, so I never picked it up. Old ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2024 - 9:55am

Weekend Science: Create A Kid Nucleation Experiment In Your Driveway

Nothing says fun to a kid like talking about carbon dioxide and nucleation sites and surfactants. Actually, that sounds really, really boring. But if you instead tell them you are going to cause a giant geyser of soda to erupt in the driveway, they will ge ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 4 2024 - 10:15am