Intelligent Design
on Jun 28, 2009 in Personal Last Wednesday, while walking the calm routes of the university, my four-year-old Kenneth Cole watch gave up one of its screws to the inevitable force of corrosion, and fell to the cold, hard pavement with a thud. I was immediately aware of a lack of...

Ah, life!
on Jun 14, 2009 in Personal Last Friday, Independence Day, I was given the most wonderful opportunity of seeing (and capturing!) one of the most fundamental processes of life in the most abhorred of species. The very process that enables life on Earth to flourish and proliferat...

Immiscible
on Apr 18, 2009 in Fatty Acids Carboxylic Acids Flavors Trivia Seeing a mixture of olive oil and balsamic vinegar is not anymore new to me, but the last time I had dinner with my parents at Italianni's was the first time I dared to play with it. I poured olive oil and balsamic vinegar onto my dip dish, and ponde...

Let's Get Physical!
on Apr 10, 2009 in Personal Lately I've been into this whole jogging and working out thing. Maybe all this spurted out of boredom—I don't know. Anyway, I don't live in the best of subdivisions and I don't know any suitable jogging tracks around here and so stationary jog...

My Brute
on Apr 8, 2009 in Personal If you're looking for a low-maintenance, hassle-free way to wile your hours away, why not try signing up for My Brute. It's an online fighting game where everything's automated from the distribution of attribute points to the acquisition of weap...

The Six Things You Need to Know About Aerogel
on Apr 5, 2009 in Gels Top Chemical Compounds Lists Solids In response to Daniel Sims' suggestion via skribit, here are the six things you need to know about aerogel:It is 99.8% air. Aerogels were derived from gel, in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with gas through a process known as...

No Acetic Acid!
on Mar 28, 2009 in Medicinal compounds Household chemicals Preservatives Carboxylic Acids Flavors Food additives Personal We just had to react to this one. The new Datu Puti Cane Vinegar commercial proudly boasts of the newest "vinegar" formulation ever known to man—walang acetic acid! (no acetic acid! *wink*) It's great, perfect actually, until you realize, how on ea...

Benzalkonium chloride
on Mar 27, 2009 in Household chemicals Cosmetic chemicals Amines Quaternary ammonium compounds Surfactants In a nutshell: biocide, cationic surfactant and phase transfer agent What’s so interesting about it? One of the safest biocides known to man, benzalkonium chloride is most often seen in your everyday wet wipes and hygienic towelette...

Welcome!
on Mar 2, 2009 in Personal Welcome, Anezka Ysabelle, to the grandest, most bittersweet irony that ever existed that is life. Do enjoy your stay here!Like what you read? Subscribe to our RSS feed (or get daily email updates) and get a daily dose of the wackiest and the weirdest...

Love Overload
on Feb 13, 2009 in Sugars Carbohydrates Flavors Disaccharides Food additives Personal What better way to spend Valentine's Day than to sit down with yourself and none other than yourself and munch on some Reese's Peanut Butter Hearts?Thirty minutes and a bad case of sugar overload later, I decided to stop.  I realized I was looking...