My friend wasn’t buying it. He had just asked me about the meaning of PCR, and I had flippantly answered, “Polyvinyl chlorinated RedAngus.” I liked my poetic license. He was less than pleased.

It’s a world full of confusing, shifting, mislabeled and misunderstood compounds and structures.

Are those multiple lamb births a problem to deal with or a boon to the lamb crop?

The year of 1692 was a bad year in the town of Salem, Massachusetts. The previous spring had been warm and rainy, and the main crop of cereal rye had been harvested during the summer and threshed around Thanksgiving.

“That’s not logical.”
“Of course it is,” I replied. “You just don’t like thinking outside the box.”

Opisthotonos, polyneuritis, beriberi, polioencephalomalacia, bracken and nardoo. What do these words all have in common? Thiamine.

If there was ever an opportunity for good science, this is certainly it.

We’ve all known animals we call "easy-keepers" – memorable cows that always seem to hold their own or even gain weight on overgrazed pastures of rocks and cactus.