The Daily Populous

Sunday August 13rd, 2017 morning edition

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But even if you've watched every episode twice, there are certain things even the most diehard superfan can't know.

The Food Network Star winner rolls up to every restaurant in his red Chevy Camaro SS.

There are a few times when he's swapped out his set of wheels, like when he went to Hawaii and decided against shipping his car.

Fieri's filmed 363 episodes to date, and for each one, he's invited a family from an organization close to his heart: Make-A-Wish.

"I know what the family is going through, to some degree," he told us last summer, when discussing his sister's battle with cancer.

One of the hallmarks of the show is the fact that nobody's more excited about the food than Fieri himself.

She based her Bridesmaids character on Fieri, largely because she and her husband are so obsessed with the show. »

Handheld spectral analyzer turns smartphone into diagnostic tool

Authored by bioengineering.illinois.edu

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed technology that enables a smartphone to perform lab-grade medical diagnostic tests that typically require large, expensive instruments.

Costing only $550, the spectral transmission-reflectance-intensity (TRI)-Analyzer from Bioengineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering Professor Brian Cunningham’s lab attaches to a smartphone and analyzes patient blood, urine, or saliva samples as reliably as clinic-based instruments that cost thousands of dollars.

“Our TRI Analyzer is like the Swiss Army knife of biosensing,” said Cunningham, the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering and director of the Micro + Nanotechnology Lab at Illinois. »