Travel, Read, Conserve

Ideate / Innovate Early on in March, when we had all collectively just started on this very unclear, confusing and scary journey, I was surprised and awed by people who had the presence and strength of mind to come up with some really useful ideas to make the situation a little better.  Mask making from non traditional materials, DIY alternatives to hand sanitizers, restaurants going take out only or altering their entire menu for their survival, brick and mortar book stores upgrading their models to offer free shipping or publishing list of #quarantinebooks online to retain their clientele are such wonderful and successful ideas that we would have thought impractical in the normal world.  Seemingly insignificant things like seeing posts from my culinary genius friends on how to use the neglected ingredients on the pantry shelf give me ideas to think creatively while menu planning. It broke the drudgery of daily cooking and put these ingredients to good use in a t...

Author : Ponti Date : 04/18/20 My collegiate education is in chemical engineering, and really, in any kind of engineering discipline one tends to spend a lot of time thinking about one specific concept: entropy. Simply put, entropy is a physical phenomenon that attempts to explain why things tend to fall into disorder. I italicize the word “things” because it is a word that is usually seen with dismay, as it provides little to no clarity or preciseness in spoken or written communication. In this case however, entropy quite literally has an effect on every thing in the universe. Entropy explains the reason why if one were to leave a glass of water outside in an open environment, the water will eventually evaporate given the temperature is above 0 C (32 F). One would naturally assume the underlying reason for the missing water to be evaporation, which is in a way correct. However, the reason why evaporation even occurred is because of entropy. The molecules of water in the glass whi...