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A Short Lesson in Chemical Compounds

Sun, 2014/03/23 - 4:09pm
Sucrose

A short lesson in why freaking out about a "chemical" because it is "derived from" something nasty (or nasty-sounding) or is "similar to" some other chemical, or contains an element or component that would be nasty in some other compound is completely meaningless.


[Gothic BC] Nanaimo and the Crimean War

Sun, 2014/03/02 - 1:46pm

In this tiny park in Nanaimo, which is actually the site of Nanaimo's original cemetery and called "Nanaimo Pioneer Cemetary Park", is the only grave on Canadian soil of a casualty of the Crimean War of 1854-56. The didactic plaque embedded into the wall reads...


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