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Friday, February 9th, 2007
Let’s Talk Energy
You may or may not have heard the good George W. talking about two energy-related topics recently: the “Hydrogen Economy” of the future and ethanol, the goal of both being to wean America from its foreign oil dependence. Both have huge problems and I’d like to point them out for you here and now. First, [...]
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Sugar
I want to chat about my favorite disaccharide, sucrose, also known as table sugar. Since the development of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), every food and beverage producer that could replace sugar with HFCS has, but why? It turns out that the US government has imposed steep tariffs on sugar imports since the Civil War. On [...]