Ancient malted barley grains found in Denmark suggest that people there were likely brewing beer at least two millennia ago Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2268383-oldest-evidence-of-malted-barley-shows-ancient-scandinavians-made-beer/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Coca-Cola Begins Testing a Paper Bottle
“Coca-Cola is to test a paper bottle as part of a longer-term bid to eliminate plastic from its packaging entirely,” reports the BBC: The prototype is made by a Danish company from an extra-strong paper shell that still contains a thin plastic liner. But the goal is to create a 100% recyclable, plastic-free bottle capable of preventing gas escaping from carbonated…
Longest-exposure photo ever was just discovered. It was made through a beer can.
Eight years and one month ago, a Master of Fine Art student at the University of Hertfordshire fitted a beer can with photographic paper and created a low-tech pinhole camera. She then placed the can on a telescope at the university's Bayfordbury Observatory and eventually forgot about the project. Source: https://www.livescience.com/longest-exposure-photo-discovered-beer-can.html
Iron Powder Passes First Industrial Test As Renewable, Carbon Dioxide-Free Fuel
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: While setting fire to an iron ingot is probably more trouble than it’s worth, fine iron powder mixed with air is highly combustible. When you burn this mixture, you’re oxidizing the iron. Whereas a carbon fuel oxidizes into CO2, an iron fuel oxidizes into Fe2O3, which is just rust. The nice thing…
Dutch Brewery Burns Iron as a Clean, Recyclable Fuel
Many industries use heat-intensive processes that generally require the burning of fossil fuels, but a surprising green fuel alternative is emerging in the form of metal powders. Ground very fine, cheap iron powder burns readily at high temperatures, releasing energy as it oxidizes in a process that emits no carbon and produces easily collectable rust, or iron oxide, as its only…
ZDNet Argues Linux-Based Windows ‘Makes Perfect Sense’
Last week open-source advocate Eric S. Raymond argued Microsoft was quietly switching over to a Linux kernel that emulates Windows. “He’s on to something,” says ZDNet’s contributing editor Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols:
I’ve long thought that Microsoft was considering migrating the Windows interface to running on the Linux kernel. Why…? [Y]ou can run standard Linux programs now on WSL2 without any trouble. That’s…
Squirrel beer, ant gin and poop wine are served up in Disgusting Food Museum’s new exhibit
Visitors to Sweden’s Disgusting Food Museum can now discover odious alcohol from around the world. Source: https://www.livescience.com/most-disgusting-alcohol.html
Hand sanitizers sold in beer cans and children’s food pouches? Don’t buy them, FDA says
Some hand sanitizer products are being packaged in containers typically used for food and drinks. Source: https://www.livescience.com/hand-sanitizer-food-drink-packaging-fda-warning.html
Live Science podcast ‘Life’s Little Mysteries’ Episode 48: Mysterious Beer
This alcoholic beverage has quenched thirsts for thousands of years and is one of the oldest chemistry experiments in the world. Source: https://www.livescience.com/llm-podcast-48-beer.html
Is Blockchain ‘the Amazing Solution for Almost Nothing’?
Long-time Slashdot reader leathered shares an investigation from the Correspondent about blockchain — and ” what’s so terribly revolutionary about it? What problem does it solve…? I can tell you upfront, it’s a bizarre journey to nowhere. I’ve never seen so much incomprehensible jargon to describe so little… And I’ve never seen so many people searching so hard for a problem…