Thursday, May 15, 2008

Quantitative cooking

All my finals are finished and I'm just working on doing my term paper for my nanotechnology course. I'm a gigantic procrastinator, so I haven't even chosen a topic until the day before it's due (not a problem since it's only a 4 page paper). In skimming possible topics though, I found this journal article which uses nanotubes to detect the presence of chemicals in chili and hot sauces, providing an accurate measure of just how spicy that food is.

Completely silly, but still damn cool.