Elemental Haiku

Madness the price paid
for you molten alchemy.
Metal. Planet. God.
~ mercury

Leftmost seat, fourth row,
yearning for the halogens
on the other side.
~potassium

Element haiku
taking the natural world,
producing beauty.

The science behind the Impossible Burger

My wife and I are trying to eat less meat. We're not going veggie or vegan or anything, but we know that our Western habits of eating big servings of meat every day and at multiple meals a day is horrible for our environment.

And if it takes eating 'meat' hamburgers like the Impossible Burger to eat a little less meat, I'll consider taking that hit.

No jokes here...this could just be a big deal.

Now, if I could just get it to be served somewhere closer to here than Texas and New York City.

Some reviews after the jump...

Drawing On Water-It Is So Surreal!

Such a cute little guy there with his floaty, bendy legs and balloon.

I'm going to have to try this out because it looks pretty dang simple to do, and the application of polarity seems pretty straight forward.

Slow Motion Chemical Reactions

The University of Nottingham chemistry department has a YouTube channel called PeriodicVideos. On the channel they have videos about every element on the periodic table and quite a few about other chemistry topics as well.

One series they have is slow motion photography of chemical reactions.

I've put my favorite up high, but the others are after the jump.