Wine’s Inner Terroir

Wine portrait: Pinot Noir 2008 hope & grace. The French use a term “terroir” to talk about a wine’s expression of place.  They say that only certain wines express terroir which means they express the land and its temperament. We experience...

Ode to a ‘Scope

Honoring the man who informed much of my scientific life. Dear Dr. de Duve I show roses to remember you and to celebrate the divine designs of cells.  As a post-doc I worked on the microscopic part of the cells for which Dr. de Duve won a Nobel prize (the...