Archive for August, 2007

August 27

Bugs and the Color of Fruit in Yogurt

Posted by Vivek
Filed under Science & Technology | 2 Comments

What makes the strawberries in Stonyfield’s Strawberry yogurt have a dull red color, rather than the vibrant, intense red found in regular strawberry yogurt like Dannon? The answer appears to be the absence of a common yogurt food coloring, carmine, derived from ground-up beetles. Sure, this fact might make you freak out, but hey — [...]

August 25

Review of Bollywood’s Chak De

Posted by Vivek
Filed under Culture | 1 Comment

I just watched Chak De, a newly released Bollywood movie about the women’s national Indian field hockey team. Usually, I really dislike watching Hindi movies because most of the ones I’ve seen have been awfully cheesy and were poor imitations of film from Hollywood. But, I liked this one quite a bit. Admittedly, it had [...]