Category: Home experiments
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Facebook friends and genes
As a scientist, when I say “I look at the relationship between genes!”, people look at me with a blank face. You can actually think about it like Facebook friends/mutual friends!
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The effects of drinking tea
I have always felt much more productive after drinking tea, so I wondered what effects tea has on my blood pressure and heart rate. This is the result measured at 10-minute intervals!
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Milk first or later
Some research has reported the optimal drinking temperatures to be around 60 degrees C (plus/minus 8.3 degrees C to include the preference for roughly 68% of the population because not everyone agrees on a temperature. Of course there are still outliers; a friend of mine drinks at 78 degrees C!).
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The pH of my food stuffs
A student once asked me “what’s the pH of chicken nuggets”? I was caught out! I have never considered the pH of things I eat… So I decided to test some! Here is a selection of liquids and food that I could find in my flat. Unfortunately, I don’t keep chicken nuggets…
the Runaway Lab Book 