Tip of the Tongue

Words are rather elusive objects. People tend to apply them in contexts so far from their origin that any connection becomes obscure. As a...

Every process has waste. This by-product may be toxic, as from certain industrial plants, due to heavy metal or chemical concentrations bu...

Computers and Internet have changed education. While schoolrooms still use books, paper pen and pencil, the tools of learning are incr...

There is a story I remember reading in my youth, apparently originally compiled by the Grimm Brothers, about giving a half blanket to an ...

Cotton candy, that spindly confection of sugar first marketed in 1904, is loved by children (and many adults) worldwide. Originally crea...

This weekend, the stars aligned in a particular fashion. It was the weekend before my birthday; we had arranged far in advance a cotta...

This week, I took advantage of the flu to partake in one of my annual rituals, rereading Alexander Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo . One ...