“There are many woodcuts and broadsides depicting the roads to heaven and hell,” says the Graphic Arts Collection blog, from its cozy home at Princeton University’s Firestone Library. The blog shows and discusses several maps of “The Many, Many Roads to Heaven and Hell.” (Thanks to John Overholt for bringing this to our attention.) BONUS […]
Category: Arts and Science
Research and other stuff that makes people LAUGH, then THINK.
The benefits, to non-scientists, of DNA research: Lennon’s Tooth
Molecular biology research, once seen as exotic, now showers benefits on the population at large. The May 29, 2018 issue of The Irish Sun brings news of the newest benefit: HERE COMES THE SON Dentist who owns John Lennon’s tooth will use DNA test to find Beatle’s potential love children in bid to claim slice of […]
Food Safety: Hash Browns with Extraneous Golf Ball Materials
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued this warning last year (on April 21, 2017): “McCain Foods USA, Inc. announced today it is voluntarily recalling retail, frozen hash brown products that may be contaminated with extraneous golf ball materials, that despite our stringent supply standards may have been inadvertently harvested with potatoes used to […]
Classical music composition and a keen interest in chemistry – are there links?
What correlation, if any, is there between the study of chemistry and talents for classical music composition? Answers are unclear, but the late emeritus professor of chemistry at the Catholic University of America, Leopold May, provided an excellent resource for those wishing to investigate further. ‘The lesser known chemist-composers, past and present’ was published in […]