The Word Chemist

The WordChemist blog has a new home! The new incarnation of WordChemist resides at http://wordchemist.com/scienceblog/ . I am shifting the f...

And there it sits. Remember the 2008 groundbreaking, followed by months of relocating utility lines and dealing with polluted soil? Reme...

Well, heck. Here is a photo I took on December 9. If it looks like not a lot has changed since my last posting in August, you're right....

It's been quite a while since my last batch of photos of the Silver Spring Transit Center project. Here's an update (5 photos, taken...

I just realized that it's been over a year since I've updated my blog. (Bad blogger!) Just to maintain continuity, I'm posting a...

Over the last several weeks, some pretty terrible things have happened in my life -- the rapid decline and death of my mother, my sister...

The big hole in the ground now has what appears to be a forest of rebar sticking out in one area. Dare we hope for actual construction befor...