Julian R. Silverman
@manhattanscientist
⚗️ teaching science @ SUNY Fashion Institute 🧼 researching waste-derived materials 🌈 from RSC Books: How and Why Soap Works #pigments #inks #mordants #paper #gardenindicators
Stopped by the Cooper Hewitt. Visiting always makes me feel like a materials scientist
Has Starbucks done butterfly pea flower tea before?! Is it no longer cool for demos if you can get it door dashed to your home for $17.50?
I keep finding Vicki Cobbs books in the best places. I remember these from when I was a kid but you can’t beat the simple accessible experiments she details.
Grand ‘penin for the new Taco Bell. Also what happens when you have it. :/
Ever since starting the “greening whitewash project” I think a lot about Tom Sawyer
I’m 90% sure this is a joke, but can someone who’s worked in the surf equipment industry explained to me what could be radioactive?!
What in tarnations is a breezy knish? It looks devilish.
Really great exhibit on tarot at the Morgan comparing renaissance and modern cards. The magus card is giving me ☿ www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/...
Was hanging out with a friend from college and we decided not to pay $89 for Heated Rivalry the Musical Tickets and went to the Canuk instead for a drink. This was in the bathroom and I don’t know why but it really made me laugh.
Second coat dry. Very nice and opaque. IR confirmed the calcium hydroxide converted to the carbonate. Good news the calcium cycle still works. Interesting is the speckled pattern/crystallization which in one paint is darker and in the other lighter. Time for SEM!
Me reading and rereading a clearly AI generated text trying to understand what they are saying without any details or specifics to grab onto.
Happy Independence Day and if you don’t celebrate, happy midsummer red cabbage day can’t wait to turn these into indicators.
I’ve visited my aunts home my entire life and never take the time to appreciate the lichen
First coat dried Second coat wet This project makes me think a lot about milling and coffee grinds and the micronizers they have at suppliers day and the calcium cycle
How and Why Soap Works is now indexed on Google Books! The perfect text to explore science in the context of personal care products. Check out the 57 page preview with lots of background on how and why the book came to be. www.google.com/books/editio...
Back in the lab looking at greening whitewash: Eggshells and pigments from waste
First time in a work of fiction I’m seeing a callout for an LCA 🔥 May Our Joy Endure Kevin Lambert
Over the river and through the woods to grandmothers house we go
Rainy beach day was fun. Saw lots of oyster catchers and boobs.