I enjoy cooking, more for the experimental aspects than anything else. Tonight, I decided to make a lot of pasta for dinners for the week. It starts with simmering garlic and onions in olive oil. Then add peppers and tomatoes. Then add starchy water from the pasta that I’ve boiled. […]
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It’s a Mt. Blanc kinda morning – clear and blue, with an easy (if slightly hazy) view of this daunting mountain in the distance. Nibbling at my pain au chocolate from a local patisserie, sipping my cup of coffee, and surrounded by mountains – it’s Saturday morning in St. Genis.
I had the most surreal experience tonight. I got off the Y bus at Lion and began walking back to the apartment. As I started down the Rue de Bordeau, I started to hear music. At first, it was quiet. I looked around to try to see where it was […]
This is my first night since I traveled to CERN where know I don’t have an early commitment the next day. I am enjoying the evening by sitting near the balcony and watching the Germany v. Greece match in EURO 2012.
Social media is frustrating, but not for the reasons you are probably thinking. It’s frustrating because it’s disconnected. What happens on Facebook doesn’t seamlessly make it to Twitter; conversations on Twitter don’t seamlessly appear as conversations on Facebook. Twitter friends cannot talk to Facebook friends when discussing the same topic. […]
I’ve been sick all week. The moment I arrived in Michigan for the MCTP Second SPring Symposium on the Higgs Boson, I started getting a scratchy throat and running a fever. By the time I made it to my hotel and made the round trip the the nearby CVS for […]
American Airlines is planning to run an anti-vaccination message from the Australian Vaccination Network, AVN. AVN is a mis-leadingly named organization that promotes the discredited link between vaccines and autism, among other anti-scientific nonsense. They claim there is scientific debate about the dangers of vaccines (there is no such debate) […]
I doubt that this product contains no genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Humans have been breeding plants according to their useful functions – cold-weather resistance, nutrition, disease-resistance – for thousands of years. It was only when Gregor Mendel illuminated the laws of genetics that we learned how to control this in […]
The University of Michigan’s Marine Hydrodynamics Laboratory contains a “Physical Model Basin” for testing various ship designs. It can hold 750,000 gallons of water and its testing systems can supporting motion up to 22 ft/s.
After my American Airlines flight finally departed Dallas last Sunday (after a two-hour weather delay) we swooped around the path of a massive storm system. You can see here one of the anvil-shaped clouds forming out of the lower cloud layer.