Perfume makers are moving toward purer ingredients for their products. The main motivations seem to be the opportunity to patent individual odorants and the ability to enhance the allure of their scents. But there are some side benefits, the most important of which is making progress toward perfumes that don’t trigger asthma.
Scientists have managed to capture an electron in motion on film for the first time. MSNBC reports that scientists used very short pulses of intense laser light called attosecond pulses and a stroboscope to film the electron. (Continue reading…)
Have you heard about Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure? SMITH magazine asked readers to write their memoirs in six words, then published the results. I’ve seen a sampling and they’re not bad.
The press is giving plenty of attention this week to a study suggesting a connection between childrens’ salt intake and obesity. Two years ago on this blog, Mickey hypothesized much the same.
Here’s what we wrote in 2006 (Can blogging boost the rate of progress in medicine?):
The latest edition of the Health Wonk Review is up at GoozNews.