“These guys weren't just shmucks off the street. They had a reputation for being right about stuff. According to some histories, Berzelius is the scientist who first called molecules that contained only carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen "organic," because they're… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“Alexandria was "the single place on earth where all the knowledge in the entire world was gathered together -- every great play and poem,… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“The bar, though, was cool and dry—not just air-conditioner cool, but cool like they were piping in an evening from late autumn. The sun… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“It happens thousands of times a day around the world, maybe millions, yet it is the culmination of human achievement, of human science and… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“the distilled spirits business is dominated by giant producers who run immensely productive facilities that produce complex, expensive chemical admixtures year after year. That’s… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
There's something about when humanity goes from hoping they get lucky in finding something fermented to doing it on purpose. They don't understand what… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“North and Central America have thirty species of Vitis; China has another thirty. But Eurasia has only V. vinifera. And Eurasia is where wine… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell.… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“When the Black Death spread across Europe, from 1347 to 1350, physicians didn’t really have anything to make people feel better besides aqua vitae.… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
Typically we don't think of cities as being particularly extreme environments, but few places on earth get as hot as a rooftop or as… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
“These guys weren't just shmucks off the street. They had a reputation for being right about stuff. According to some histories, Berzelius is the… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize… — Adam Rogers Copy Share Image
