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When cultural practices deny people equal access to rights such as education, physical and emotional well-being, we must cease to tolerate difference under the guise of multiculturalism.
I’m working on a new project and would love to hear some of your thoughts and opinions on the world of Science Fiction. If you would like to participate — Please […]
I always used to laugh at people who ignored the lyrics to “Every Breath You Take” by The Police and thought it was a lovely love song. If it’s about […]
Last week public radio’s On Point called upon a group of experts to discuss the top 10 science fiction films of all time. Included on the show were the NY […]
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Social media sites have fundamentally changed how people communicate, but when it comes to really groundbreaking ways of reaching people “social has so many more legs still to go. We […]
Bloomberg reports this week that News Corp., which own both Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association in June—a contribution that dwarfs […]
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The fact that social media has become more of a mainstream activity means that businesses need to take it seriously. The days when you could ignore it are long gone.
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A conversation with the founder of the Altimeter Group.
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There are some very interesting things coming out of the Nordic countries that could challenge the culinary hegemony of Spain and France.
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There’s something amiss if restaurants have to announce that they use good quality ingredients; that should be a given, says Dufresne.
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Foam has risen to prominence among a certain generation of chefs—but its detractors call it pretentious or just plain weird.
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Humans have never invested very much in the public health and safety issues of their societies. Meanwhile ants, over the course of millions of years, have put a lot of […]
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Dufresne has two common approaches to dishes: familiar things in unfamiliar presentations and unfamiliar things in familiar presentations.
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There may be more similarities between ants colonies and human societies than there are between ants and primates. That’s is because ants, like humans, can have societies in the millions.
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Wasn’t the first guy who ever held meat over a fire experimenting with his food? That turned out all right.
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The common belief that searing a steak will “lock in the juices” has been debunked by food scientists, yet some chefs persist in this practice.
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Because of molecular gastronomists, we have learned more about making food in the past 15 years than we had in the previous 15,000.
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With many of the foods considered by society to be “tasteful,” like caviar, we have to develop an appreciation for them. Does that mean they taste “better” than something inherently […]
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Creating a sense of immediate need is incredibly important in galvanizing people to initiate big changes.