Angst

Angst

“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous...
The Sad Story of Three Misfits

The Sad Story of Three Misfits

Three men I knew but not as well as I thought—a father, a disgruntled employee, a son.  Tragedy, families ruined, a bizarre plot to assassinate a President and detonate a dirty bomb in Washington D.C. by a disturbed young man who according to a TIME magazine reporter...
Coffee

Coffee

Panorama photo of Martin Schmidt’s coffee art by Krissy Jones   Farmer Brothers locked up the restaurant market by loaning out equipment—stainless cabinets, brewing machines, pots, and other essential accessories.  The policy helped cash-poor restaurateurs...
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...