Terra Sigillata
Archives for December, 2005
Why Terra Sigillata?
Posted by Abel Pharmboy on December 20, 2005 If you Google, “Terra Sigillata,” you’ll get a number of hits for various clay pottery recipes. Very complicated stuff, requiring the use of a deflocculant to separate out large clay particles from the small ones. Terra sig, as it is known among pottery hipsters, is then used to coat finished pieces to produce a very…
A Humble PharmBoy Begins to Sow
Posted by Abel Pharmboy on December 15, 2005 OK, so I’m a latecomer to blogging. I was also more than a week late for my own birth. The blogging spark for me was an Aug 1 2005 article in The Scientist by David Secko. That’s where I first learned of Derek Lowe over at In The Pipeline…and GrrlScientist, Pharyngula, BotanicalGirl, and, YoungFemaleScientist, among…