Brand New Key - Briley the One Girl Band

I’m setting off on a journey around the world to follow the butterfly effect. I want to see how even a single action on one side of the globe can have a profound environmental impact on the other. My journey begins in Germany, with a family rewilding thei…

Journaling is the habit of keeping a diary or log about our experiences, ideas, insights, and anything else that life evokes in our minds. The Stoics have a long-standing tradition in journaling, with Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations as clearest evidence. Wri…

[music playing] - It’s snowing out, a little snowing, white Christmas. - I know it’s going to happen any day now. So the plan that they came up with was rather ingenious. They decided to take Paul Castellano out by luring him to one of his favorite resta…

Hello wordsmiths! I have to keep my voice down. You see, you’ve caught me observing a word in its natural habitat. Here we can see the words at play: nominalizing and conjugating, brachiating, snoozing. There’s a waterfall of vowels, there’s the conate ba…

The thermodynamic favorability of a chemical reaction can be affected by the temperature. Let’s say we have a generic reaction where the reactants turn into the products. As a quick review, when the standard change in free energy, ΔG° is less than zero, t…

All right, part B. A fresh zinc-air cell is weighed on an analytical balance before being placed in a hearing aid. For use, as the cell operates, does the mass of the cell increase, decrease, or remain the same? Justify your answer to part B1 or B1. In t…