Can You Smell What The Rock Is Cooking?

Can You Smell What The Rock Is Cooking?

  The Rock in this case isn’t the ex-professional wrestler and somewhat salacious actor, Dwayne Johnson.   The rock to be discussed here is not salacious but siliceous, which refers to a high content of silicon dioxide (SiO2) or silica. When siliceous rocks are...
Sussudio-progression

Sussudio-progression

If Phil Collins, Genesis band member and genius solo songwriter, had also been an oncologist, he might have renamed his hit song from the 1980s, Sussudio, Sussudio-progression, which, mouthful though it is, makes a lot more sense. (Perhaps Sussudio, an otherwise...
EpicentRx Word of the Weak (WOW): Feckless

EpicentRx Word of the Weak (WOW): Feckless

“If you give a feck, read below.” Feckless Definition (adjective): worthless, weak-in-character, incompetent, irresponsible, inept. “It is impossible to rely on a feckless person; The attempt was ill-fated and feckless; Congress is feckless.” Pronunciation: feh-...
A Blog About Sm-AH-g

A Blog About Sm-AH-g

Why did we spell “smog” like “sm-AH-g” in the title? Well, if you made it past that first sentence, it’s not to imitate a “Bahston” accent from, say, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, or Mark Wahlberg, even though we have been known to say, “Pahk yah cah in Hahvahd Yahd” and...
The Agony of De-Heat

The Agony of De-Heat

This summer across the US the heat is on – really on – both outside and thanks to lead EpicentRx therapy and transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) inhibitor, AdAPT-001, inside tumors as well. Inside tumors it is the presence or absence of infiltrating T...