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Terminology

April 10, 2007

Inter­est­ing terms heard at work over the past few weeks.  Some of them have spe­cial­ized tech­ni­cal mean­ing, in con­text, but have entirely dif­fer­ent mean­ing if heard else­where. Per­ish­able Skills — Skills that you have to prac­tice, oth­er­wise they get lost over time.  I am an Eagle Scout and used to know how to tie all […]

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<s>Alchemy</s> Chemistry

November 4, 2006

Chemistry-lowres.pdf 180M, 150dpi

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Flesh is Grass

November 3, 2006

Remem­ber, kids: flesh is grass The above image is from a 1961 book on alchemy chem­istry.  The major­ity of the book talks about alchemists and includes things like alchemy sym­bols for things like gold, sil­ver, arsenic, and urine.  It illus­trates the par­tic­u­lar type of oven that alchemists use.  The book then squeezes atoms, mol­e­cules, mag­net­ism, mineral […]

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