I Was Good At Math

Chefs Think About What It's Like To Make Food. Being A Scientist In The Kitchen Is About Asking Why Something Works, And How It Works.

Suppose That Every Prospective Parent In The World Stopped Having Children Naturally, And Instead Produced Clones Of Themselves. What Would The World Be Like In Another 20 Or 30 Years? The Answer Is: Much Like Today. Cloning Would Only Copy The Genetic Aspects Of People Who Are Already Here.

If People Don't Get Paid For Their Inventions, That's Not A Good Thing. In The Case Of Many Patents, There Are People Who Aren't In A Position To Take Them To The Next Level. If You Don't Enforce Your Rights, No One Is Going To Enforce Them For You.

Cooking Is An Art, But All Art Requires Knowing Something About The Techniques And Materials. Using Modernist Techniques, You Get More Control, And That Allows You To Be More Artistic, Not Less!

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 Its Hopeless Inefficiency Helps Blunt The Basic Potential For Evil.