Tasting Tea By SIR RONALD

Tea Tasting and Pascal Triangles

TASTI: Tasting and Socializing Tabletop Interface

Tabletop displays are a growing area of research for studying social interactions. In this paper, we present TASTI (Tasting and Socializing Tabletop Interface), a novel interaction technique for enhancing tasting events, such as a wine-tasting. Users interact with TASTI’s digital display by manipulating physical objects (such as wine bottles) placed on the table. Each bottle’s position is track...

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A LADY declares that by tasting a cup of tea made with milk she can diaaimiaate whether the milk or the tea infusion was first added to the cup: We wiil consider the problem of designing an experiment by means of which this assertion can be tested . For this purpose let us first lay down a•airaple fonn of experiment with a view to studying its limitations and Its chu'acteristics, both those whi...

Tea with Sir William Osler.

Having unexpectedly recovered after 70 years of cryopreservation precipitated by the heating arrangements in the bedrooms of 13, Norham Gardens, Oxford, where he was Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir William Osler recently visited the current Regius Professor to take tea with him in the Master’s Garden at the Almshouses of Ewelme. Excerpts from the tea-time conversation between the “Regii” follow.

On the Limitations of Blind Tasting

Blind tasting — tasting without knowing the wine’s producer, origin, or other details obtainable from the wine’s label— has become something of a fetish in the wine world. We are told, repeatedly and insistently, that blind tasting is the best, most neutral, least biased, and most honest evaluative procedure, and one that should be employed to the exclusion of non-blind/sighted tasting (which, ...