Nothing like a bottle of wine and fresh organic grapes to get one thinking about how we process our food to make it safe for consumption. The surface of a natural grape is covered with a fine white layer of indigenous yeast. And yet it seems we are told to wash the grapes we get … Continue reading The art of managing fruit and health
The BBC reports that Oregon has been developing infrastructure systems while the rest of America (world?) falls behind. Couterbalancing the lure of cheap petroleum and giant personal automobiles with reasonable public transportation, the state now seems to have come out ahead of the rest of the nation: Over the last 10 years, public transport use … Continue reading Oregonian transportation makes UK news
Correction, that’s what people used to do. It’s ok to look, just don’t record images as it might be interpreted as intent to cause harm. Information has literally become power. The Register has the scoop: The FBI said Monday that it had no information to indicate that the men in custody had any ties to … Continue reading That’s what people do when they see a tourist attraction
Some nice photos of penguins in flight, from a story about a zoo in Germany… Interesting to note that a German zoo report from last year revealed that they were having difficulty convincing their penguins to mate. The problem seemed to be that male “relationships were apparently too strong.” A keeper confirmed that the … Continue reading Quantum mechanics of penguin captivity