Yesterday we awoke with no plans, except that we’d arranged to have drinks in the evening with the owners of the apartment we stayed in for 6 months when we were here in 2008. The boys went off on their own again, so Suzie and I had a day to pass in Paris just the two of us. Suzie had researched restaurants on Yelp before we left (she says Yelp […]
Funny juxtaposition today in one of the sites I regularly watch. This article describes new research in a type of material that can capture and store gases, which is summarized as: Chemists report the “ultimate porosity of a nano material” and records for carbon dioxide storage capacity and porosity in an important class of materials known as MOFs [or metal-organic frameworks]. Porosity in materials is essential for capturing carbon dioxide. […]
Je suis revenu en Californie il y a une semaine. La rentrée est difficile. La France me manque, et Paris me manque. Mes amis à Santa Rosa me demandent pourquoi, mais je ne peux pas facilement m’expliquer. Un jour, je regardais un match de football americain à la télévision, et il y a eu la pub pour une camionette. Dans cette pub, la musique était forte, tous les hommes étaient […]