March 2012
3 posts
“To look at Teaching, for instance. Universities are a notable, respectable...”
– Thomas Carlyle “On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History” 1841.
The relevance of Carlisle’s speech to the 21st century university and the internet are profound. [Thanks to Penn State Librarian Helen Smith for finding the source of this quotation for me.]
Food Protein Gels
To build a model of protein gelation it helps to start with a model for proteins themselves. For most globular proteins we can start by ignoring the details of sequence and conformation and imagine most globular proteins as fairly dense particles a few nanometers in diameter with a hydrophobic core and a more hydrophilic surface; in effect colloidal particles rather than polymers. Depending on...
“Overall, on a per-capita basis, much more food is wasted in the industrialized...”
– “Global Food Losses and Food Waste”, FAO, 2011 