The funniest paper you will read today

Credit: Ma et al., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.

Thanks to Free Radical, I note a paper in Angewandte Chemie from a Chinese team [1] where they coated gloves with tannic acid and found that it greatly improved the ability of the gloves to catch fish.

I kinda love this idea; sure, catching fish in your hands is awesome (you can really imagine a version of these gloves being sneaked into a noodling championship in Mississippi), but who knows what uses this invention will be used for?

1. Ma, S., Lee, H., Liang, Y. and Zhou, F. (2016), "Astringent Mouthfeel as a Consequence of Lubrication Failure." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.. doi:10.1002/anie.201601667