Wilbur Scoville was first published in 1895 and has gone through at least 8 editions. The book was used as a pharmacological reference up until the 1960s. Scoville also wrote "Extracts and Perfumes", which contained hundreds of formulations. For a time he was a professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. In 1912, he devised the test and scale known as the "Scoville Organoleptic Test" while working at the Parke-Davis pharmaceutical company. It measured piquancy, or "spiciness", of various chili peppers. It is now standardized as the Scoville scale. In 1922, Scoville won the Ebert prize from the American
Thomas Scoville and "Martin Luther, Meet Linus Torvalds" as well as perspectives on open-source software for O'Reilly Media. Two minor works demonstrate playful collisions of popular culture and occult spirituality: "The Metrosexual Tarot", published in 2003, burlesqued urban male narcissism and consumer culture, while "The Comic Bardo Thodol", published in 2008, recast the Tibetan Book Of The Dead in comic book form using imagery from mass-market entertainment. Thomas Scoville Thomas Scoville (b. California 1960). American humorist, programmer, technologist and author who chronicled the rise and fall of Silicon Valley during the dot-com bubble. Two works render a Silicon Valley insider's perspective based