In Vino Veritas

    Sometimes I approach the world of wine in a light and fluffy manner. I try desperately to engage everyone and to not alienate anyone. This is inherently impossible given the diverse nature of the human race, and the fact that I toe the line of what is dignified with my verbose, sometimes crass, and neurotic babbling. That said, please note that if you do not like one post that…

Pythagoras proposed the Earth was round and not flat around 500 BC Copernicus told us the world was not the center of the universe in the mid-1500s. Galileo was condemned by the Catholic Church for defending Copernicus over one hundred years later. Anton van Leeuwenhoek gave us the gift of seeing microorganisms (thank him for cooties) in the late 1600s Later germs were reinforced by Louis Pasteur (1860s) shortly after Darwin introduced the…