Walter White Teaching Chemistry - BREAKING BAD CLIPS

There is actually some decent chemistry being explained in Breaking Bad. 

I assume they had some chemistry consultant on set to write things on the board and proof the explanations that Walter was giving to his class.

Admittedly, Walter is portrayed as a pretty awful teacher who has some really interesting things to say about a subject that he finds fascinating. I'm hopeful I'm a little more engaging with my students much of the time, but I fear that sometimes I come off a bit like Walter White in the classroom.

Drink THIS If Your Mouth Is Burning

Well, dangit.

I've been saying that the heat-killing ability of milk toward chili peppers was because the capsaicin is soluble in fat which means that full-fat milk should be way more effective at reducing the burn.

But the study cited in this video says that skim milk was slightly more effective than was full-fat milk.

Dangit, how dare they learn something that makes a good story I've been telling for a couple of decades not be true anymore...

Food Plastics = Estrogens in Your Body

I promise that I'll have something fun and dopey for next week. We've been on a run of pretty heavy content mostly telling us that polymers are killing us.

I'm going to go outside and watch some butterflies.

PFAS roundup

Bunch of videos about PFAS because I can't bring myself to write the dozen of separate posts that these should all be posted as.

Watch one...take a break...come back and watch another. Don't run them all through at once. 

It's not cheery stuff, folks.

Does Pressure Melt Ice?

Yes, you can.