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My name is Stu Shepherd, and this was my science blog. I started The Bug Count in October of 2012. It wasn’t a great blog. It was mostly silly and mostly poorly written. I wrote about how nuclear fuel rod pools work, and the flashes of light that appear when you rub your eyes too […]

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Baking soda is a chemical. Why don’t we treat it like one?

Baking soda is one of the most widely recognized chemicals in the world, and yet we don’t treat it like one. It is a relatively humble molecule: one atom each of sodium, hydrogen, and carbon, and three of oxygen. Unlike many other chemicals that have risen and fallen from public grace, baking soda has had a […]