The other places I've found PG (in a dessicated form) is in cake mixes. The use of it in ecigs sort of troubles me though. I haven't found much reserch what it breaks down into when it's heated as theatrical smoke. I'm an ecig user and use only US made veg oil based liqids.

Too true. You would most likely to get the shits from PG than anything else (but you would have to drink a bunch of it) and you're more likely to get a higher dose of it in supermarket processed foods.

You seriously harm the credibility you're striving for in your chemistry posts when you say blatantly false things like "Fireball is too good..." The only thing Fireball is too good for is maybe drowning Hitler in a giant vat of it; Even Williams Cinnamon Reserve for that bastard.

Isn't water technically the closest thing science has found to a universal solvent? And also slightly acidic? Then again, water also happens to be composed of rocket fuel and one of the best oxidizers known to humanity. If they want something to blindly panic about, at least they could blindly panic about something…

Since ethanol can be used as an anti freeze, technically it still contains antifreeze, just the tastey kind. Mmm mmm Anti-freeze.

But the real question is whether it has gluten.

omg liek i already sed on the gawker article, any organic solvent with a freezing point lower than water in aqueous soln is already an anti-freeze! alcohol is an antifreeze!

"this whole mindset of paying people less than a living wage is really baffling to me."

I think I probably blew that sponsorship the first time I described their motto as "Subway: Eat BLEEUUUUCCHHH."

I always decorate my cakes with the image of Mr. Yuck to dissuade cake rustlers.

Random chemicals, GMOs, vaccines, people fear what they don't understand. It's like those old "Ban dihydrogen monoxide!" petitions people had fun with a few years back. If you point to a scary name, people don't pay attention to what's actually going on.

You are never going to win the internet if you go around spouting facts and well reasoned opinions. You've also blown that Subway sponsorship.

I say this a lot, but I'm an Australian and this whole mindset of paying people less than a living wage is really baffling to me. I work as a casual at one of the major supermarket chains in Aus and when I started (at 16) I made $12.15 an hour and now that's I'm 20 I make $20. That is affected by me being a casual…

There's no way to undo the damage they've done, to get people to actually start listening again. The only way forward is to navigate the reality they've inflicted on us and beat them at their own game.

The problem we have is that people have been conned by a well-oiled conservative propaganda machine (God, conservatives are so much better at messaging than progressives, probably because it depends on openly lying) into voting in ways that are diametrically opposed to their own interests. It's a frankly unbelievable…

Clearly their governments brainwash them into reporting a significantly higher level of satisfaction with their lives. The Republican party would do the same for us if people like you would quit resisting. ;)

Has anyone pointed out how, if you pay fast food workers more, they won't be motivated to get real jobs? Because nothing's more fun than moving the goal post for poor folks. It used to be that people on welfare should go out there and flip burgers because, hey, it's a job. Now people who flip burgers are nothing more…

I loathe that. It's the same weird sort of jealousy that people use to justify hating on social programs like cash assistance - I have to work and no one's giving me anything for free. It's like they can't see that simply by having a job and being able to afford food, rent, etc is way better than having to crawl to…

I stopped into a McDonalds the other day for lunch. It's one of the few places where I live you can get a quick meal and still be able to sit inside and eat. It was spotless, the order came out fast and was freshly made, and the best part, when the cashier saw my crazy big baby stroller she offered to bring my tray of…