Colorful Spring Pop Quiz: What word denotes a flavor, a monastery, a mountain range, as well as a color The backstory begins in Paris in 1605, when a French alchemist named François Hannibal d’Estrées provides a recipe for an “elixir of long life” to some monks of the Carthusian order.…

This past week’s solar eclipse up in the great north woods was pretty amazing, And the moment of totality reminded me of another amazing Thing, that has been around for so long, and is so ubiquitous, that we kinda don’t appreciate it. First of all, we don’t even know how…