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...crisis, our instincts can be our undoing. William Morgan, who directs the exercise-psychology lab at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, has studied mysterious scuba accidents in which divers drowned with plenty of air in their tanks. It turns out that certain people experience an intense feeling of suffocation when their mouths are covered. They respond to that overwhelming sensation by relying on their instinct, which is to rip out whatever is in their mouths. For scuba divers, unfortunately, it is their oxygen source. On land, that would be a perfect solution...
With astonishing speed and obsessiveness, Blumenthal created a circle of foodie physicists and chemists and applied their wisdom to the kitchen. Barham exposed him to lab-equipment catalogs. Tom Coultate, a retired food biochemist from South Bank University, explained advanced gelling agents (used in the restaurant's tea, almond and quail jellies). Anthony Blake, a vice president of Firmenich, a Swiss fragrance and flavor company, was most influential. "The first time I went to Geneva," says Blumenthal, "Tony showed me thousands of flavor molecules and extracts in little jars. I was in heaven...
Blumenthal now has an impressively stocked lab across the street from the Fat Duck, and he recently got a $25,000-a-year grant, for three years, from Britain's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to hire a doctoral student who will help him fine-tune the development of a crispy cocktail and explore the nascent area of flavor perception. "Eating isn't just taste, it's all the senses," he says. "Blindfold knowledgeable wine drinkers, and a majority can't say if they're drinking red or white, so sight matters. Sound--the crunch of a carrot--affects...
...lifesaving feats of World War II; of pancreatic cancer; in New Bern, N.C. When Seaman Darrell Rector fell ill on Sept. 11, 1942, aboard the Seadragon--which had no doctor on board and was a week away from the nearest port--Lipes, who had observed the procedure as a lab technician, was ordered to lead the surgical team. Using ground sulfa pills as an antiseptic and a gauze-covered tea strainer as an ether mask, he removed the appendix in 21/2 hours, sending Rector back to work within two weeks...
...committee also discussed unclear or irrelevant questions on the current CUE evaluation form, including an inquiry that asks students to rate if section and lab leaders’ “used blackboards…well...