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By Chile Doctor, on Saturday, July 30th, 2011, at 10:30 pm
We use the word “hot” pretty indiscriminately these days. The weather’s hot; this food’s hot; that song’s hot. My car’s hot (inside) these days. Or fill-in-the-blank-with-favorite-actor/actress is hot. And on and on.
In the zesty food game, hot has a pretty distinct meaning. Where is it on the Scoville scale? The bigger the number the […]
By Chile Doctor, on Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010, at 7:00 am
Some of you may have been wondering where I got off to. The Chile Underground has been fairly quiet since the start of the year. Well, the secret can now be told! I was doing something I hadn’t done in many years: I was seeking gainful employment.
Yes, yours truly was out there looking to […]
By Chile Doctor, on Saturday, August 22nd, 2009, at 11:00 pm
I spent an interesting Friday afternoon at Texas Lutheran. The fall semester is about to take up, and we have a plot afoot: We’re going to use some of the facilitative methods we’ve built for industry to see if we can push the freshman Chemistry students to be more successful. A big challenge! Performance […]
By Chile Doctor, on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009, at 11:00 pm
Today I visited with my sister-in-law, Dr. Liz. (I’d give you her full name, but since she got married I can’t remember all her last names.) I know, that nickname makes her sound like some sort of relationships therapist or something, but actually she’s a gim-crack polymer scientist working in tissue engineering. She’s also a […]
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