Month: September 2014

The Academic Wino is Getting Married!

In case you have been wondering what I’ve been up to in my life for the last several months, I’ve been preparing for my upcoming wedding to my fiance, Jacob Irwin (he has a personal finance blog BTW–>visit it!–>My Personal…

Who’s Your Daddy?: Carménère

The “Who’s Your Daddy” series takes a very brief look at the parentage of grapes, in order to get a better understanding of where particular varietals come from and how they are genetically related to one another.  So far, we’ve…

2014 Napa Earthquake: Learning from ‘Quakes Past

In 2000, researchers at UC Berkeley performed an earthquake simulation not too dissimilar from what we saw in the recent Napa earthquake.  The simulation performed in 2000 was based off a 7.4 magnitude earthquake, and while the Napa earthquake was…