El Pollo Real

...no, let's cover the moon with Quark ! no, let's go find Quarks ! no, let's find the Higgs boson, the Holy Grail !

The contender : Costco Style : New York In your mouth : The sauce and the pepperoni are pretty good but the crust is pretty gross. I l...

Carol Herman wrote in the comments  here : I guess chemists mistake the fact that you can line elements up in a row ... with the same sort...

Here's a long shot of a guess. I don't think the Norwegians will award a Peace Prize this year. Still reeling from the horrible Utoy...

...hearing this the night it was spoken: It would take more time than anybody has around the daily news shops to think of the right thing ...

...ride at Disneyland: The Mark Twain:

Wallace Carothers, American chemist and inventor extraordinaire, had a brief teaching and research appointment at Harvard before leaving to ...

[This post is a continuation-in-part of the previous post] Henry : What Wilkinson first gave the world now goes by a name. It's called...

I ron has so much history that I may have to make a little hash tag label for it like I did for carbon with bloghetti carbonara . There is j...

July 26, 1953 Dear Mom, Dad and all, I got back from Baumholder Friday. It was wet and muddy there. I had to sleep in my jeep be...

July 18, 1953 Baumholder Dear Mom, Dad and all, I finally found time to answer your letter. I am over in the French Zone driving for an of...

The words manganese and magnesium are related. Their entwined roots stem back to a place called Magnesia in ancient Greece where they wer...

The Kingston Trio recorded this song in  1959 . I still can't decide if the lyrics were prescient or are just timeless. We owe the song...

From The Telegraph : One of the big US banks texted me today to say that if QE3 actually happens, we could see gold at $5,000 and silver at...

So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real iron and coke...

I got sidetracked by vacation and few other things and lost my way regarding the chemical elements. The following inorganic pigments are mos...

A postcard my father sent home during his Army service in Germany 1951-53 (click on the tag "Letters Home" for the whole series): ...

What's a "poop" deck? How did it get its name? asked Carol Herman in a comment back here . Etymology has long been a hobby o...

I took this photo onboard a famous naval vessel in Hawaii because it reminded me of an earlier quasi-famous photo of two key players in the ...

I particularly like this old Woody Guthrie song sung by The Kingston Trio entitled The Sinking Of The Reuben James. The maker of this YouTu...