This spring, a company announced that powdered alcohol, or Palcohol, would soon be hitting the market. But in the wake of widespread worry about health risks, its approval by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau was rescinded. Still, no amount of legislation could keep dampen the curiosity of Popular Science senior editor Paul Adams. So he whipped up his own recipe for powdered alcohol. Now you too can try eating booze—although we wouldn’t recommend it.
32 square meters: the surface area of the average human gut
84 years: the time it takes for 9 drops of pitch to fall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZKZF7FNh_0
215 calls to poison centers per month: involve e-cigarette liquids, one of the reasons the FDA has put new restrictions on vaping
35 million cubic feet: the amount of nuclear waste at a seaside dump in Britain, which is “virtually certain to be eroded by rising sea levels”
The Sellafield nuclear site in northwest England. About six kilometers (4 miles) to the south is the nuclear waste site, the Low Level Waste Repository, where material from Sellafield and elsewhere is stored.
98.52 percent: the portion of human faces that a new algorithm can identify correctly
