The 2002 Ig Nobel Prize winner for chemistry is Theodore Gray, who made an actual periodic table. You know, four legs, wood, the kind you can sit at to eat lunch, but with inlaid wooden squares on the top, and under each square a sample of the element. The site is fantastic: this guy has [...] Read more »
Footsteps of Man
A handful of eco-athletic types have embarked on possibly the most ambitious athletic activity of all time: a seven year, 40,000 mile walk from the Cape of Good Hope to Cape Horn, with short boat rides across the Red Sea and the Bering Strait. Be sure to check out their travel log, full of striking [...] Read more »
Wine rundown
Jennifer asked in the mcgees.org QuickTopic forum that I mention the wines I chose for dinner with my parents this past weekend. We were having Italian cold cuts (some spicy), bread, and sharp cheeses. I wanted massive Italian wines that could stand up to the onslaught. I chose two that are currently available at Trader [...] Read more »
Interview with Gore
There is a good exclusive interview with Al Gore at washingtonpost.com. Read more »
Election monitoring
Russian, Albanian Election Monitors Sent to Florida Read more »
Free tea
The most heartwarming thing just happened to me. Regular readers of mcgees.org will know of my love for tea, specifically teas from In Pursuit of Tea, and more specifically the Autumn Green that I wrote about previously. In that post, I mentioned using the last of the Autumn Green, and being intrigued by In Pursuit [...] Read more »
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