The following ad copy is linked from a TIME article on a new study on heavy drinking. I wonder how much the company paid for the link insertion, plus the ‘photo essay’. Micrographs made in a Florida State University chemistry lab reveal kaleidoscopic patterns in popular cocktails. Margarita The images are made by crystallizing the [...]
Learning Spanish is a fun endeavor, in part because I’ve discovered such items as the following while enjoying its namesake. This term, which means “beer” in Spanish, originally came from the medieval French word cervoise. For its part, the French term origianlly stemmed from the Gallo-Roman (that is, ancient French-Latin dialect) word cerevisia, which was [...]
In my last Goodreads micro-review, I stated that “there’s a lengthy excerpt which pertains to literature which I should type in here, but I may save that for a blog entry.” I’ll go for half here and cite the better paragraph, truncated at that: In dealing with the [classical] liberal social philosophy there is a [...]
There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside ourselves. Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us. Hence it is that people with a sense of fulfillment think it a good world and would like to conserve it as it [...]
Czechvar. The lager. You may have heard of it. If not, it is a Czech (check) lager which for a mass commercial product isn’t bad, if you like a pils, or pilsner, which can be a refreshing change from the heavier, hoppier Northwest ales. Czechvar had been known as Budvar, the original Czech name from [...]