Our brains are busy things. What with all those neurons beavering away, sorting things out at work, home, school and dog park. It’s a lot for one organ to handle. Somehow, it mostly succeeds. There are, I’m told, many kinds of brain cells, each dedicated to a particular cerebral activity. A complete taxonomy would be…
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Gray Matter
Our brains are busy things. What with all those neurons beavering away, sorting things out at work, home, school and dog park. It’s a lot for one organ to handle. Somehow, it mostly succeeds. There are, I’m told, many kinds of brain cells, each dedicated to a particular cerebral activity. A complete taxonomy would be…
Mother Vine
The first order of business for the Biblical patriarch Noah, once his ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat and he and the fam set their sandals down on dry land again, was to plant a vineyard. We are not told where the vines for this enterprise may have come from, but as an article…
Should You Be Buying Only Organic or Biodynamic Wine?
There was a time in the Wine Corner when we took pains to identify wines made with organically farmed grapes or via the method known as biodynamics. We eventually, did away with this system, and in a moment I’ll tell you why. But first I’d like to address a question we’re regularly confronted with: whether…