El Pollo Real

There's a heat wave headed to western Wisconsin and that signals the end to a great skating season. I took one last spin around the rink...

The hourglass: The glass is silicon dioxide (SiO 2 ) and the sand is as well   (ignoring slight impurities like sodium and borate). SiO 2...

That is the moon setting early this morning. The reflection comes from the bare ice of a skating rink. Here it is later in the day: And her...

Morning ski trails on a local lake:  The newer path diverging left is incuse while the older path on the right appears in relief. This effec...

"...two important aspects of inorganic chemistry (in fact, of chemistry in general) are structure and reactivity.  Someone has said tha...

  My wife and I are separating after 33 years. Harsh but true. We had a good run. I blame the current political climate, but the official re...

A month before the Armistice, the second in command of the German forces, Erich Ludendorff,* advised the Kaiser that victory was no longer p...

DR. ELSIE MAUD INGLIS  Commandant, Scottish Women’s Hospitals  Educated Edinburgh School Of Medicine for Women. Active in Women’s Fr...

PAUL ROHWEDER  Student of Theology, Kiel  Born December 18th, 1890, at Zarpen (Holstein), Killed April 23rd, 1915 near Het Sas.  ...

ALBIN MÜLLER  Student of Theology, Bamberg Lyceum  Born December 16th, 1892, at Tiefenstockheim, Unterfranken. Died March 28th, 1915...

FRIEDRICH (FIDUS) SOHNREY  Student of Political Economy, Berlin  Born December 21st, 1887, at Möllenden. Killed November 8th, 1914, ...

RUDOLF MOLDEN HAUER  Student at the High School of Commerce, Munich*  Born March 18th, 1894, at Munich. Killed December 13th, 1914,...

Acids are sticky things -- they cling to each other and hardly break ranks. The reason why is called "hydrogen bonding." Alcohol l...

From the mailbox: Photo by Sixty Grit I finally used up most of my Waterlox - I used rocks to displace the air inside the can and it ...

...in the photo, I mean.* link to original A "new" theory is going round that Titanic was in a race to get to New York bef...

The winter of 1916-17 seemingly froze movement in the trenches. The French and British commanders awaited the spring thaw to resume the Somm...

Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influen...

The "Chemical History Of A Candle" by Michael Faraday, is perhaps the most popular science book ever published. It has been publis...

..Nobody knows what will happen to us now, but I think this is the end. Those are hard words, but you must understand them the way th...

Link to original 100 years ago, the Battle of the Somme was winding down. The fighting lasted another week before both sides, exhausted,...