Math Dept: Numbers + Words = Poetry
logger Gregory K. Pincus, a screenwriter and aspiring children’s book author in Los Angeles, seems to have captured lightning in a bottle with his new form of mathematical poetry based on the Fibonacci sequence, a spiraling equation found almost everywhere you can look: Creating one of these poems is simultaneously simple and complex and devilishly […]
Bureau du Cinema: Riding on BART (The Movie)
It’s like “Snakes on a Plane,” but better. OK, it’s actually nothing like that, but I did what I could with a minute and half of video. FYI that’s my youngest brother (3 of 3) Josh and the lovely Yelena. I am, of course, manning the camera.And here is the rest of it. Technorati: Newspaper […]
Dept. of Design: Facelift
As some of you may have noticed, the Web site has been conspicuously silent for the last month while the site design was slightly updated. It’s not much, nothing drastic, but I think the changes make for a subtly pleasing change. One point that most observant readers may catch is the increased width of the […]
Dept of Desserts: How is Fudge a lot like Geology?
There’s a recent, albeit random, theme to my culinary pursuits, and if you haven’t guessed yet, it’s dessert. More specificaly, non-baked goods. I’m talking about mousse and ganache, custard and candy and of course – fudge. What brings me to the next dessert to be mastered was a heart-stopping combination of my two passions (science […]
Flan-tastic
After my previous post this week I got pretty anxious to try out Julia Child’s recipe for crème renversée au caramel, a dish that caused her to fail her final exam. It was, in truth, pretty easy. It’s a three-step process; burn sugar, create custard base, bake custard. Quite simple in technique. My only problem […]