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Cooling Ability of Fresh Ice vs. Melty Ice

Initial observation: When making mixed drinks and reusing ice, the shaker seems to become much colder than when using ice fresh out of the freezer. Question: Does the initial temperature of ice cubes...

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Breast Size Measurement via Archimedes’ Principle

Breasts come in a wide variety of sizes, and due to their shape, are difficult to accurately measure to determine their actual sizes. In this study we will use Archimedes’ Principle, which uses the...

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Snow to Boiling

Drip-pan or Reflector? What is the purpose of the under-element pans on the stove? In the spirit of science, and wanting the snow to go away, we will run some tests to see how long it takes to go from...

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Purple Potato pH Palette

The mystery of the purple-turned-blue potato scraps… (aka, fun with pH & colors!) Initial observation: A little piece of purple potato at the bottom of the Primary Testing Facility’s kitchen sink...

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Snow melt siphon

How to mitigate basement flooding with a garden hose siphon. Initial observation: We had an impressive amount of snow this year (223.75″) and it has been melting FAST. This has led to significant...

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When Science Goes Wrong

Sometimes, science just doesn’t go as planned…. We were tasked to test the functionality of a Biolite stove, which was recently acquired for the northern extension of our testing facilities. Since...

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Balls of Steel and Ice

Having contributed the a successful Kickstarter campaign that claimed to “harness the power of phase change to keep your beverages cold” last year, we were excited to put the product to the test. In...

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On the importance of searing steaks

Here at the primary testing facility, we recently acquired our first sous vide immersion circulator. Since this is a novel cooking technique for us we have many questions. In this post we seek to find...

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Iced Beverage Challenge: Brandy vs H2O

When consuming iced beverages, it casually seemed that ice would disappear at different rates depending on the beverage. What happens when we actually test this? Initial observation/Question: It seemed...

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Frosty, the car window

Sometimes frost on the *inside* surface of the car’s windows is a fact of life here at the primary testing facility. The defroster grid in the back window, while typically used to melt frost, the...

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