The next time you are on a plane, if you are like me, you probably won’t care what the pilot of that plane looks like. You just want to have confidence that he or she knows how to fly that plane safely. The same is true of the doctor scheduled to operate on you. Seems pretty...
The billboard is on westbound M-43 on the way into town. It reads "Exit Hwy. 186 - Open 24 Hours." Here's the problem. There is no 24-hour McDonald's in South Haven nor is there a highway numbered 186 or an exit number 186 near South Haven. So what gives? Understanding the ...
That last one is more relevant to pharmaceuticals (like heparin, a blood thinning medication) and how some infectious diseases work (likeStreptococcus) (4). Since we’re focusing on food here, this second category will have to be a conversation for another time. What are lectins? Lectins are...
POS systems enable you to ring up sales faster. With an old-fashioned cash register or (heaven forbid) pen and paper, you’d have to manually enter items and update your inventory records for each transaction. Point of sale systems take care of all of that for you by automating these pro...
If your personality were a city in Washington state, which one(s) do you think you would be? If money were no object, which city in Washington state would you like to live? There is only one condition–the city HAS to be here in Washington. Would you mind blending in with the ...
Fortunately, my job allows me to choose comfort over style which I will choose every single time I have the option. However, there are those occasions where for one reason or another, I must open the closet and "dress up" a bit more than I normally do. And every time I do, I have...
“This needs to be about nutrition. The purpose here is to give Americans the information they need to make healthy choices. This is not the time or the place to get into sustainability.” If it were true that the US Dietary Guidelines were only about nutrition, red meat would have been...
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Hot processuses an external heat source to (carefully) speed up the soap-making process (“saponification”). Hot process soaps generally take less time to make: a couple hours for saponification and about a week to cure. Extra ingredients are added near the end of the “cook time” and ...
But why hunt and peck when you can use a quick and easy keyboard shortcut? Master the keyboard shortcut, and you can make your very own em dash anytime you need one. But beware, because with great power comes great responsibility. Now that you can make an em dash, how do you know...