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Business 40 years ago Austria wineries got caught sweetening wine with antifreeze, nearly killing the industry (and their customers) Ellsworth Toohey

heat-resistant ice cream Ice cream in China doesn't melt, even under a flame, sparking controversy Carla Sinclair

makers Designer creates a new "gravity seal" for iconic Kikkoman soy sauce bottle Mark Frauenfelder

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parody Hannity debunks "menacing" Twitter joke about his Olive Garden Pasta Pass Thom Dunn

Audio MIT physicists capture audio of a "perfect fluid", people put it on their Soundcloud playlists Clive Thompson

thailand Rather than fixing the cause, Bangkok tries to spray its smog away using water cannons Carla Sinclair

robots Shapeshifting microrobots to travel through your bloodstream David Pescovitz

computer graphics A better way to simulate a pile of melting armadillos Mark Frauenfelder

Science You can hear the difference between hot and cold water David Pescovitz

miracle substances Sortkwik keeps your fingers from feeling like desiccated leather Mark Frauenfelder

videos WATCH: goopy simulated meltful armadillos Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Review: NutriBullet 12-Piece High-Speed Blender/Mixer System Rjcjr

Food Sound is the forgotten flavor sense Gastropod

Science Ant-Man, the Physics of Shrinking, and the Higgs Boson Jim Kakalios

Science Pitch-drop experiments: science's long wait Maggie Koerth