Yesterday I made butternut squash soup, one of my favorite recipes from one of my favorite magazines. It’s a delightful soup for a cool fall day, especially with a sprinkling of nutmeg just before serving. One part of the recipe calls for sautéing the seed and fibers of the squash in butter… as this is […]
While unpacking and sorting the boxes from college I came across Campbell’s “Biology” 5th edition, which was my textbook in AP Biology during my senior year of high school. This book (now in the 8th edition) was a milestone in my life, it along with the AP Biology class were instrumental in my ultimate decision […]
Sunday (the 9th) was the birthday of Carl Sagan, one of the most eloquent and passionate ambassadors of science of our time. One can only imagine what he would have said about the developments that have occurred since his passing…
Today I found out that Medford is where in 1982 E. coli O157:H7 was first identified as a novel food-borne pathogen. While it was later determined that O157:H7 had been responsible for outbreaks in the 70s, it was here that it was first identified as a novel serotype. Who would have thought?