April 2013
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Emerson: The Ideal of America (Full Documentary) →
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Synopsis: “Emerson: The Ideal in America” is the first video biography of the man who is still America’s most quoted author. Spanning most of the turbulent 19th century, Emerson’s life took him from a financially poor but intellectually rich childhood through an education at Harvard to early success as pastor of a prominent Boston Unitarian Church. But personal tragedy and...
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March 2013
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February 2013
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December 2012
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The smell of earth after rain
holymoleculesbatman:
is called Petrichor, and it is caused by Geosmin.
Geosmin is an organic compound with the formula C12H22O. It’s produced by several classes of microbes, including cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and actinobacteria (especially Streptomyces), and released when these microbes die. The human nose is extremely sensitive to geosmin and is able to detect it at concentrations as...
November 2012
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“And the women of New Bedford, they bloom like their own red roses. But roses...”
– From chapter 6, The Street, Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
One of my favorite quotations from this fantastic book.
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