Chefs around the world are coming up with some beautiful and original food designs. This article on Chinese cuisine has some interesting comments on the role innovation and culture in food appreciation. While we’re on the topic of food, Caroline Noordijk has designed some great looking knives.
Any frequent flyer will appreciate this thruthful in-flight announcement by The Economist.
It turns out that some women may see 100 million colors, way more than the average person. It’s hard to imagine what the world would look like for these individuals! In a related note, I just finished reading Oliver Sacks’ An Anthropologist on Mars, a collection of stories about unusual neurological conditions, and I can highly recommend it.
I don’t usually post geeky stuff, but this article details how Firefox cleverly circumvented a security hazard. Great design!
MIT has a really ambitious research underway for renewable energies. Speaking of which, these solar towers look really promising. Of course, all of this could be a moot point if these guys are legit.
The NYT on whether movie stars impact movie revenues. The answer seems to be no.
Bruce Schneier has an interesting and intelligent take on the British liquid-bomb plot, namely that our reaction is causing nearly as much fear and disruption as an attack would have.
The Economist on gerrymandering, or how to change district borders to make sure you can’t lose your seat in Congress. It amazes and disgusts me that these tactics are tolerated.
This Boston Globe article compares the security measures at US Airports with those at Ben Gurion airport in Israel. Unfortunately, the author conflates behavioral profiling (good) with racial profiling (bad). This NYT article covers how the US is trying to adopt these methods.
