Just playing around with the idea of not using any external fonts.

I have been putting off the redesign for some time now. With the recent development linking google fonts might be one thing to remove. This site wasn’t that layout dependent anyway - so I suppose with a little nice CSS and maybe a few updated templates I might get around. But I’m currently more worried about my vue apps and the Astro blog where I use the default style sheets.

Let me know if something breaks for you.

The #rc3 is currently held. Luckily the talks are accessible without tickets.

The Ig Nobel Price winners have been announced. Although they are obscure this years nominees I didn’t find them as funny as in the previous years.

Nice to see that the chemistry one went to Wicker et.al. (ref) We did similar measurements (though not in the cinema). So it’s fun to see our field also got a nod.

The last days brought two papers with playful topics:

• Digital Nose Stimulation Enables Smelling in Stereo (IEEE)
• Mammals can breathe through anus in emergencies (phys.org)

Another odor focused article: ‘New Car Smell’ Is The Scent of Carcinogens, And Even Short Trips May Overexpose Us.

I didn’t blog much over the past year. But having some time in the February break it was time to take this blog to 2021.

There recently was this interesting article: Deficiency and absence of endogenous isoprene in adults, disqualified its putative origin by Pritram Sukul et.al (10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e05922). Thanks to Julian King for pointing to this article. It’s an interesting study trying to track down the endogenous origin of isoprene in breath.

Just recently I found an interesting answer to the question “Why can we smell copper?” on the chemistry stackexchange.

There is a Github repo td20200225. I had to spend more time than expected on data cleaning.
The analysis is done in R with a tidy work flow.

Having some more time at hand I was able to add long overdue alterations to cookiecutter-r-data-analysis. I left my template alone for about a year and during this time I have developed some new practices and given up on some others.