Yesterday I drove to Ithaca, New York, where I met up with Mary Smith, Professor of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University. Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine maintains a poisonous plants garden, which makes sense, if you think about it. Veterinary … Read More
Recently I visited the Poison exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. It included a toxicological explication of the witches’ poem in MacBeth, which, by happy coincidence, my son is reading in English class right now… Read More
In Louisiana in the mid 1800s, French was the most commonly-spoken language. Banks there issued ten-dollar notes marked with ‘DIX,” which is French for 'ten.' The note became known as a “dixie,” and the name stuck as a term for the South.