I vaguely remember being dragged along to visit an elderly friend of my parents as a child. This friend lived somewhere in northern Michigan and the experience was, to be frank, almost entirely forgettable. There was, though, one aspect of the trip that managed to stick to the walls of my memory– the smell– and no, I am not referring to the elderly friend of my parents. No, I am referring to the Continue reading
Human beings may have a lot of flaws, but imagination, inventiveness and wit are not usually one of them. When something doesn’t work correctly or well-enough, we figure out a way in which it will. Sometimes this involves Continue reading
Ever heard of a guy named Georgius Agricola? Perhaps you should if you’re at all interested in the building blocks of modern society and our understanding of it, as Mr. Agricola was a Continue reading
I often wonder how the heck people survived back in the day without the help of things like cars, phones and amazon.com, let alone without basic electricity and Continue reading
I was just given a stainless steel water bottle for Christmas and told to throw out my inferior pile of plastic and aluminum water bottles that I had grown accustomed to buying and Continue reading