In Vino Veritas

Imagine, if you will, hunting a tyrannosaurus rex with a Nerf gun. There you are sitting in a tree you climbed, scoping for the illusive T-Rex. There are myriad raptors in the jungle doing their thing, but you’re holding out for the big guy. After hours of waiting, a cacophony of sound erupts from the floor below. Dinosaurs were running from something, and they were running fast. Tremors start shaking the tree, and they’re getting bigger. It’s heading…

(disclaimer: any run-on sentences in this post are intentional… others, maybe not so much, but this one yes. If you cannot handle reading run-on sentences try pinching a body part while reading this. It may help occupy the grammar pain center of your brain just enough to get you through it. I highly recommend attempting to read this regardless, because it’s fun and I wrote it damn it. Thank you for being you and for your time, and I…

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…