In the first matchup in the First Ever Cheesecake Playoffs, the Godiva® Chocolate Cheesecake pulled off an easy victory over the Tiramisu Cheesecake. As I mentioned in my last post, this Saturday was going to be pretty packed. Monroe had her soccer game (unfortunately, they lost…), and then we headed out for the day. Next,
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In the first big matchup in the Cheesecake Playoffs, we are forced to break the ultimate tie. The first battle pits #8 and #9 seeds – Godiva® Chocolate Cheesecake vs. Tiramisu Cheesecake. Now, it turns out that this is the ultimate tie, not only because both the Godiva® Chocolate Cheesecake and the Tiramisu Cheesecake scored
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Today is the first day of the Major League Baseball playoffs, but you don’t have to be a baseball fan to enjoy the playoff atmosphere. In fact, if you love dessert, then our family has a competition worth keeping track of. Single elimination. Gloves off. Full contact. Competition for the best of the best of
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Stephen Wolfram recently gave a talk about his efforts to understand the universe around us through computation. He’s the CEO and founder of Wolfram Research, creator of Mathematica, and author of A New Kind of Science. Wolfram recently launches his computational knowledge engine, Wolfram|Alpha (I wrote a post about its launch some time back…). Here’s the video
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Back in January, I posted the announcement of Apple’s iPad tablet computer. I’m personally really excited about it – don’t know if we’ll get one right away (it took us a couple of years before Stephanie and I both got our iPhones – which we love…). However, this post is about the irony of Newsweek
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HBO is airing a docudrama they produced in conjunction with BBC on the pursuit for a new theory of gravity. The movie “Einstein and Eddington” details (if not dramatizes a bit…) Albert Einstein’s efforts to come up with his theory of general relativity, and Arthur Eddington’s efforts to prove him right, all in the backdrop
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I recently came across this great interview by Discover Magazine with Sir Roger Penrose of Oxford University. Penrose has made monumental contributions to theoretical physics, geometry, and mathematics. He’s also the author of The Emperor’s New Mind and The Road To Reality, and invented what are now called Penrose tiles, which are geometric shapes that can
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60 Minutes did a two-part story interviewing Michael Lewis on his new book, The Big Short. In his book, Lewis details how probably only 10 or 20 people in the entire financial sector knew what was going to happen, and how Wall Street nearly created its own demise. In the 60 Minutes piece, Lewis describes
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