The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.