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We don’t live at home, but we are in our thirties

We don’t live at home, but we are in our …

A very musical Turkenfunken

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A very musical Turkenfunken

Getting ready for dinner. T-minus 2 hours.

Place settings

The menu

The progress of the feast

We catch a glimpse of the turkey.

A glimpse of the turkey

The turkey went into the smoker this morning. Hardwood charcoal plus hickory chips. EPIC.

Turkey smoking

Twas the night before TurkenFunken

Thanksgiving is one of the few holidays in the U.S. It’s sad that our culture doesn’t have a consistent attitude toward recharging and refreshing the mind and the body. At least we have Thanksgiving. At our house, this has become a tradition of having family and friends fly in and […]

Scenes from a Turkenfunken (Thanksgiving @ our house)

We created our maple brine today. This is for brining the Thanksgiving turkey that Jodi will cook in our smoker on Thursday. Enjoy these photos!

Let the brining begin!

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The hardest thing

Today, we began lecturing about one of the hardest things to discuss: how creationism and intelligent design are not science. I know . . . to a scientist who keeps their scientific life separate from their religious life, this sounds strange. But the reality is that for many people without […]

The hardest thing

Good timing! The company – Boiron –  that produces that same homeopathic sleeping pill that we overdosed on in Friday’s lecture also recently published a TERRIBLE study of their migraine “remedy.” It’s a great example of how bad science can seem legitimate by making its way into a journal. The […]

A good example of very bad science (pseudoscience): homeopathic migraine …

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