May 11

May 11

This odd mathematical coincidence caught my eye today as I was trolling Twitter. Richard Feynman was born on May 11, 1918 (see Maria Popova’s article at Brain Pickings) Bob Marley died on May 11, 1981 — See below Maria Popova ‏@brainpicker For Richard...
How I Learned To Eat Escargot

How I Learned To Eat Escargot

Snail shells are one of many examples of the Golden Spiral in nature.  One way to approximate the Golden Spiral is with a mathematical series called the Fibonacci series.  The ratio between consecutive Fibonacci numbers approaches the golden ratio as the Fibonacci...
Henry

Henry

Part of the job of running a restaurant is ordering the food and supplies.  The two biggest suppliers when I first started at the Sea Gull were Monarch and Sexton.  Today both these companies are part of the giant food distributor US Foods, but they started as...