Unqualified Offerings

Last night the Littlest Offering and I made the Steamy Kitchen Pho Bo recipe. (That’s Jaden’s picture at the right, though, not ours. Used by permission!) The very short version of the story is, the soup was astonishing. In fact, it was the best Pho Bo I have ever had – better than any [...]

By Thoreau
This little rant most assuredly has nothing to do with staying up to grade labs until 3 am, going to sleep with a headache, waking up 2.5 hours later with the same headache, being unable to go back to sleep, and teaching an 8 am lab followed by a lecture on my least favorite [...]

By Thoreau
Inspired by this Hit and Run thread as well as the weekend’s drug-inspired…ahem, drug-related musings, I’d like to pose this question to the gallery:
Can you have drug legalization and a welfare state?
My answer is that a bad idea need not crowd out a good idea.

By Thoreau
Optics Express is a free online journal with cool stuff. I’m going to try to make a habit of going there, picking the first neat article I notice, and blogging it. Today, I bring to your attention a system for getting pictures of arterial plaques as well as information on the chemical [...]

By Mona
English-language maven William Safire in his NYT column yesterday, On Language: Waterboarding, begins by declaring: “Some locutions begin as bland bureaucratic euphemisms to conceal great crimes.” He continues, my emphasis in bold:

If the word torture, rooted in the Latin for “twist,” means anything (and it means “the deliberate infliction of excruciating [...]