Heartland conference: day 2

In the morning, there were enormous piles of bacon, which is, as all competent doctor's should recommend, the best way to start a day. Robert Balling of Arizona State gave…

We made Joker!

UPDATE: apologies to those who tried to comment from 1 am to 5 am EST Wednesday. My hosting service was doing maintenance and comments were locked out. All is well…

Briggs and Big Oil

The closest I come to "Big Oil" is when I create my spécialité de la maison: bacon-olive-oil confit. Incidentally, that's the only way to cook this miracle pig meat---frying removes…