No Thank you..... The Affordable Care Act (ACA) became a topic of conversation last night while I was chatting with friends. It’s a conversation that makes me antsy, as I wonder how we can trust a government with our health care system when it shuts down for 16 days because its members cannot work together. … Continue reading Affordable Care Act: Talk Does Not Cook Rice
Day: October 23, 2013
Mole Day, Russian Chauvinist
Mole Day! If you are reading this before 6:02 p.m. in your time zone, you still have time to celebrate Mole Day. Mole Day commemorates Avogadro’s Number (6.02 x 10^23), which is a basic measuring unit in chemistry: For a given molecule, one mole is a mass (in grams) whose number is equal to the … Continue reading Mole Day, Russian Chauvinist