Science Comedian

Science Cookies

December 13th, 2009

Awe­some sci­ence cook­ies in a series of posts to a food blog by a bio­log­i­cal anthropologist.

Aren’t all anthro­pol­o­gists bio­log­i­cal?  I’m a bio­log­i­cal comedian.

Ooh, she also has Space Invaders!

Too Much Sodium

August 1st, 2008

My sis­ter told me recently that she won’t eat Chi­nese food any­more because it has too much sodium.

But isn’t that ridicu­lous? To sin­gle out one ele­ment from the Peri­odic Table? You’d have to have a pretty sen­si­tive palette:

“Oh, I don’t eat Mex­i­can food… too much mag­ne­sium!“

or

“Waiter, I’m sorry, I asked for the beryl­lium on the side…”

or

“Noth­ing ruins a ham and cheese sand­wich like a tad too much molybdenum.”

How many times have you said that?

Per­son­ally, I love Chi­nese food. I don’t care if there’s plu­to­nium in it… it might be a lit­tle hot, but I’m eat­ing it.