Red wine…

…is a very useful and pleasurable indulgence we at tpog.net do take pleasure in. barrique red wines are amongst our favorites, so this news item had our hearts sparkling

Apparently Italian winemakers are moving away from using oak barrels to age their red wine, and looking to acacia, cherry, chestnut and mulberry instead. All […]

In memoriam: Leslie Orgel

It just came to my attention that Leslie Orgel is dead. He died on October 27th 2007 as an 80 year old scientist who has certainly left a great impression, was recognized as a great mind and a generous human being.

Leslie Orgel was also known for his “second rule”, which states that “evolution is cleverer […]

Creating 3D sugar structures

kudos to Amanda:

the people at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories have come up with something pretty sweet—a 3-D sugar printer.

Really cool. Makes me want to go out and build one myself:

Alles [auf] Zucker!

The title off a german 2004 comedy about a disgrunteld jewish journalist actually lines out german chemist Peter Seebergers work on glycane chemistry at ETH Zürich. While the movie is bristling with witty fast-paced dialogue, Seeberger took a lesson from Merrifield and managed to build the worlds first automated polyglycane synthesizer bringing a faster pace […]