I’ll take a moment to plug Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle if you’re looking to learn more about Newton and Alchemy. It’s fiction, but it’s Neal Stephenson fiction, so it’s crazily well-researched.

And buggering poor old Hooke about over his work for the Royal Society.

And arguing with Leibniz over who invented Calculus first!

Fun fact: After revolutionizing physics, Newton spent the last 30 years of his life running the English mint, battling coin counterfeiters.

Fun fact, vaccine coverage in Latin America is comparable (if not higher) than the US (especially when compared to GranolaLand, USA).

Damn these people. Just... damn them.

I haven't made it over to East Africa yet but it is for sure on my list! As a Sierra Leonean American, I've essentially traveled on the West side. I agree it is a very scary and just sad to think that many provinces/towns do not have access to proper health care and supplies are limited as is. Traditions and…

We just got back last week from a trip to East Africa and it was so sad to hear how much this was affecting them, in countries with no cases that are thousands of miles away from the outbreak. Our local guide said many folks had canceled scheduled trips, which is going to have a devastating effect on the economy of…

We even have a word for alternative medicines that work: "medicine."

I am not interested in the "so-called scientific community" because they are imaginary.

Sea salt doesn't usually have iodine added. There are a couple brands that do, but they're not the ones the hippy dippy types typically flock to. Because, you know, additives are bad. ◔̯◔

The divide between how much mysticism and empiricism to allow in ones life is very clear and defined.

You can prove quackery doesn't work a thousand times and the quacks (and quackees) just aren't going to believe it.

She should have done 30 minutes of the classics and then the new stuff. But then it would have been a Bey concert. Which would have suited me and half the world just fine.

That was not my intention at all, this clip is just what my brain came up with as I read the article. T'was only meant as a joke.

Barbecue is derived from the word barbacoa, used by Taino Indians in the Caribbean to describe an elevated wooden rack on which they slow smoked at low temperatures fish, lizards, alligator, and other game.