Friday, March 21, 2008

Annual Marshmallow Peeps Post


I discovered this silly website a couple of years ago. It's still hysterical and especially appropriate for Easter week-end. It seems that some scientists (apparently with some time to kill in the lab) are conducting laboratory experiments on marshmallow peeps. They have an entire website devoted to their studies.

One particularly cute experiment was "the effect of alcohol and smoking on marshmallow peeps."
http://www.peepresearch.org/smoking.html

First, the peep was exposed to alcohol and did exhibit s
ome signs of inebriation, such as bumping into the walls of the swimming vessel:



Then, the peep was permitted to select a brand of cigarette and smoked without apparent ill effects:


However, when smoking and alcohol were combined, the effects were catastrophic:

Their conclusions: "The synergistic effect of smoking and alcohol in Peeps produces a rapidly exothermic oxidation reaction, leading to a chemical and morphological divergence from the wild-type Peep phenotypes."

The marshmallow peep appears to be an excellent experimental model for the synergistic effects of smoking and alcohol!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Eeeewwww! If I ever needed a demonstration of why I shouldn't ever take up smoking...

Fantod said...

Thanks for the reminder, doc! I'd forgotten about that site. It's hilarious!

eyedoc333 said...

Hee hee!

Anonymous said...

Pathology.org is the largest up to date informational database consisting of general health and disease information. The only way to combat disease and promote healthy living is to provide the public current information on health and diseases. Pathology.org consists of breaking news in the health world and offers the information needed to take preventive and combative measures to fight disease. Your website seems to be a very credible resource and would beneficial to us in the fight to combat the contraction and spread of disease. You can aid us in this fight by simply putting a banner or link up for us, making our site available to your vast public.To avoid spam please email me back with your blog/site's url so that we can list your blog/site as featured resource.

Title: Stem cell research or Pathology

Url: http://www.Pathology.org

gmail.com said...

Thank you for any other informative blog. Where else could I get that kind of information written in such an ideal method? I have a project that I’m just now working on, and I have been at the glance out for such info

driveway paving brentwood said...

oh what a beautiful morning
driveway paving upminster and also driveway paving hornchurch or maybe we could patios essex

-blessed holy socks, the non-perishable-zealot said...

Greetings, earthling. Because I was an actual NDE on the outskirts of the Great Beyond at 15 yet wasn’t allowed in, lemme share with you what I actually know Seventh-Heaven’s gonna be like for us: meet this ultra-bombastic, ex-mortal-Upstairs for the most-extra-blatant-and-groovy, pleasure-beyond-measure, Ultra-Yummy-Reality-Addiction in the Great Beyond for a BIG-ol, kick-ass, party-hardy, eternal-warp-drive you DO NOT wanna miss the sink-your-teeth-in-the-smmmokin’-hot-deal. YES! For God, anything and everything and more! is possible!! Cya soon...

fifa-munzen said...

Der Marshmallow-Peep scheint ein ausgezeichnetes Versuchsmodell für die Synergieeffekte von Rauchen und Alkohol sein!

www.fifa-munzen.de

http://www.fifa-munzen.de/