Move over, Yelp! Thai embassies worldwide will soon be equipped with new monitoring equipment, and no, it's not drones. Unhappy with the way its national foods have been perverted, subverted, and diverted in foreign countries, the Thai government's Thai Delicious Committee is selling its embassies "an intelligent robot that measures smell and taste in food ingredients
through sensor technology in order to measure taste like a food critic," so they can rate the local Thai eateries: http://gizmodo.com/thailand-built-an-electronic-tongue-to-police-thai-food-1640291286
i just found your blog and it is wonderful! i'm going to share it with all of the teachers i know. well done :)
ReplyDeletethank you, t merriman! most gratifying. you might be interested to know that this all started as a mini-class I led called Interesting Things. it was for a multi-age group of third- through eighth-graders and was lots of fun. nothing like watching connections being made!
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