The new contender was created by Nathan Myhrvold, the former CTO of Microsoft. Myhrvold cuts his potatoes into batons and rinses them to get rid of surface starch. Then he vacuum-seals them in a plastic bag, in one even layer, with water. He heats the bag to 212 degrees for 15 minutes, steaming the batons. Then he hits the bag with ultrasound to cavitate the water—45 minutes on each side. He reheats the bag in an oven to 212 degrees for five minutes, puts the hot fries on a rack in a vacuum chamber, and then blanches them in 338-degree oil for three minutes. When they're cool, Myhrvold deep-fries the potatoes in oil at 375 degrees until they're crisp, about three more minutes, and then drains them on paper towels. Total preparation time: two hours.
The result is amazing. The outside nearly shatters when you bite into it, yielding to a creamy center that's perfectly smooth. The key is the cavitation caused by the ultrasonic bath—it creates thousands of tiny fissures on the potato's surface, all of which become crunchy when it's fried. When Plato saw the shadow of a french fry on the wall of his cave, the guy standing behind him was snacking on these.
The recipe is one of 1,600 in Myhrvold's new cookbook, Modernist Cuisine. It's a big book—2,400 pages big. Six volumes big. Big like the original slipcase failed Amazon .com's shipping tests and had to be replaced with acrylic. Big like it weighs nearly 50 pounds and costs $625.
(Sent from Flipboard)The work by IU Department of Mathematics Professor Nets Hawk Katz, with Larry Guth of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., achieved what many thought was unachievable: Solving Paul Erd?s' 1946 Distinct Distances Problem.
"If someone hands you some distinct set of points, you can figure out what is the set of differences. The problem is to determine what the minimum possible set of distances is," Katz said. "What we did is to show that no matter how you place the N points, the number of distances is at least a constant times N/log N."
James A. W. Powell set high standards in the advanced math classes at Finneytown during the 1960's through the 1980's.
Jim attended Wheaton College before joining the Army during World War II. After the war, he married Louise, his wife 47 years, came to Cincinnati and went to U.C. where he earned his B.S. and M.Ed. degrees. He taught at St. Bernard for 11 years before coming to Finneytown for the next 24 years. He retired in 1984.
Following the death of one of their three children, Jim and Louise helped to establish a national support group called "Parents of Murdered Children," whose headquarters are here in Cincinnati.
Jim is most proud of his marriage, the success of his children and teaching. Jim says that he likes keeping in touch with some of the best students in the world! Jim enjoys his vegetable gardening and working in an 8-acre woodland in Adams County.
Sent from Steve's iPad...6. Walker is corrupt.
Although early in Walker says they are investigating the Democratic Senators to see if they are committing ethics violations by accepting union funds, when the fake David Koch says he will fly Walker "out to Cali and really show you a good time," Walker responds by saying "that would be outstanding."
The problem is -- and dare I say this -- it doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice. And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1,500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat per serving, yeah it does -- what do you mean, what do I mean?
What is it - no, I'm trying to say that our First Lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you. I mean, women are under constant pressure to look lithe, and Michelle My Belle is out there saying if you eat the roots and tree bark and the berries and all this cardboard stuff you will live longer, be healthier and you won't be obese. Okay, fine, show us.
"It's an autobiography written as it's happening," he said. "The theme is about staying alive. Getting a job, finding a mate, having a place to live, finding a creative outlet. Life is a war of attrition. You have to stay active on all fronts. It's one thing after another. I've tried to control a chaotic universe. And it's a losing battle. But I can't let go. I've tried, but I can't."
Obama also Friday named Otellini to his jobs council in a move designed to harness the power of innovation to ignite economic and employment growth.
Otellini will serve on the president's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, an advisory board, headed by General Electric chief executive Jeffrey Immelt that is dedicated to finding new ways to boost growth, hiring and the education and training of US workers.
• Intel, whose open-source MeeGo smartphone operating system was quite publicly dumped by Nokia last week when the phone maker announced its tie-up with Microsoft, says it will keep on keeping on. "The carriers still want a third ecosystem and the carriers want an open ecosystem, and that's the thing that drives our motivation," Intel CEO Paul Otellini said, according to Reuters.Devindra Hardawar at VentureBeat begs to differ. If Otellini is touting open as MeeGo's draw, Hardawar said the open "champion will be Android."
Actually, Nokia wasn't entirely clear it was breaking up with MeeGo, but it did decide to hook up with Microsoft to put Windows on its smartphones, plus it let go of the executive in charge of the joint venture with Intel. (See Quoted: Nokia gets on board with Microsoft — is it the right call?) The world's largest chip company can take a hint. But it's not above getting in a few digs. The Reuters article also includes this from Otellini, speaking about Nokia CEO Stephen Elop's decision to go with Microsoft: "I wouldn't have made the decision he made, I would probably have gone to Android if I were him. MeeGo would have been the best strategy but he concluded he couldn't afford it."
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"We've taken the notion of a one-time password that generates a dynamic code every 30 seconds and we've embedded it into the chipset," Gilburg says, "into the [manageability engine] of the 2nd Generation Intel Core and Core vPro. This is brand new technology; Intel is the first to do this."
That manageability engine (ME), by the way, is on the same silicon as the Core processors' compute and graphics cores. And unlike Intel's vPro client-management technology, IPT is common to all three levels of the 2nd Geneneration processors: the Core i3, i5, and i7; vPro skips the i3.(Sent from Flipboard)> "There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing."
