(photo credit: Daniella Zalcman) Teflon is polytetrafluoroethylene, or PTFE. The molecular structure of Teflon is based on…
Derek Bridges
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Who doesn’t want to touch the feathers?
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest published instances of the word beep appeared in the late 1920s and 30s in reference to the sound of a car horn. But in 1951 Arthur C. Clarke wrote in Sands of Mars, “The carrier wave … now modulated into an endless string of ‘beep-beep-beeps.'” The beep, as we know it, was born.
Maybe the metaphor is a stretch, but wouldn’t it have been nice if the same care taken…
Bo Dollis, Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias, celebrated his birthday at Handa Wanda’s tonight. GB (I…
I’d give you an after pic but we ate it too fast. (Here’s during). Next time.