Ah, the first day of Spring. Although our weather has seemed more like Spring since New Year’s. (Maybe even it felt like Summer for a few days, too.) We can thank this phenomenon to the climate change that we are experiencing. (Please don’t tell me you also deny climate science!). That’s also why the sickness season really extends until May, nowadays.
Continue reading Spring has Sprung
Lots of new books about science, science deniers, and politicians are abounding. Of course, the politicians all tend to be science deniers, but that should surprise no one. Not the least of which, because most of them are attorneys, who probably never mastered science or technology when younger (and, hence, became lawyers).
The first day of spring has come and gone. And, for most of us, that means that our chances of feeling sick (other than allergies) has been attenuated.
Continue reading Winter Colds and Flu?
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know I love to cook. After all, I’m a frustrated chem e who no longer has a full-time lab at his disposal. The kitchen serves as my surrogate facility.
Continue reading You say ‘to-mah-to’. I just want it to taste great!
Have you ever been to Death Valley? This is a national park that straddles California and Nevada. It’s below sea-level, almost always in drought conditions, that is amazingly hot in the summer day- and amazing cool at night.
Continue reading It wasn’t abducted by aliens!
OK. This could be a real problem for me. I am rarely cold. Oh, sure, when I am sick (about once a year, Thanks SB!) I feel it. Otherwise, I only feel the heat. Starting somewhere around 65 F (19C). But, for most folks, being cold is a problem. Maybe, more than they- and we- thought initially.
Continue reading Brrr! Cold problems?
