Pocahontas County Fare

Earlier this week, Terry blogged about a Princeton study showing that All sweeteners are not created Equal . (Thanks, Terry!) The press rel...

For the past 18 months I've been working on a digitization project for local history materials. (Hence my unhealthy co-dependent relatio...

I've never been great at shifting gears mentally, so my current work configuration offers me a real challenge. I'm teaching courses...

I love recipes, especially unusual cooking projects. That's why I've saved these reverences on homebrewed biodiesel, even though I d...

Recently, I wondered "Where do they get monosodium glutamate?" If you buy a jar of "Accent," or bulk MSG from a Chinese ...

Sometimes I teach chemistry to nursing students. Last night was one of those times. Today, my mental abilities are matched by those Princes...

I've been following the goings-on of my former bosses, J. Craig Venter and Claire Fraser, for several years, but Forbes Magazine's o...

In my continuing search for materials on the history of chemistry, I've been browsing the Web for carbohydrate chemistry. Here are some ...

Here are some excerpts from an interview on Newton's alchemy with historian Bill Newman , who has some interesting things to say about a...

I'm preparing another chemistry lecture, and I keep coming back to John Donne. It may seem strange, but it's all connected in my he...

When I was an undergraduate student, I believed my chemistry and physics professors hated me. I was a biological sciences major, and had to ...

I spent Thursday and Friday immersed in chemistry review and computer chores. Everything takes longer than you think it's going to in b...

Today was the first day we had to turn up the wood stove and burn some serious firewood this season. While I was dreaming, last month, of cu...