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- Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is… Able
- Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're… Business
- Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when… Examined
- Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life?… Battle
- Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how… Article
- Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an… Called
- The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help… Accurately
- The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an… Adult
- The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials… Batteries
- The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a… Bank
- The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't… Behind
- The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied… America
- The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because… Alternatives
- The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is… Affects
- The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they… Age
- The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel… Boeing
- The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time… Appeal
- There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause… Asteroid
- There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is… Bad
- Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another… Affect
- We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only… American
- We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven… Content
- We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch… Auction
- What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once… Bones
- When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the… All
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