by Rick Theiner | Mar 23, 2019 | Blog
I have often wondered what is behind the term “spring cleaning.” It turns out the concept dates back to Bronze Age times when people would clean their homes after a long, hard winter. In northern climes, it was usually done in March or April when the...
by Rick Theiner | Jul 20, 2018 | Blog
One of the benefits of my full-time job as a surfactants chemist for a Fortune 500 company is that I get to attend a lot of conferences and seminars – some as an attendee, some as a presenter, some as an organizer. That said, one of the best benefits about...
by Rick Theiner | Jun 20, 2018 | Blog
In 1992, my hometown of Memphis, Tenn. was a beer wasteland. The exotic stuff was Bass, Guinness, and St. Pauli Girl, but I had recently joined the workforce and I was doing some travelling. I learned that there was more to a beer lover’s life than the paltry...