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Cauliflower and Caramelized Onion Tart

Difficulty: Easy Servings: Serves: 4 Source: Smitten Kitchen Ingredients 1 small head cauliflower cut into 1-inch florets 3½ tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon truffle oil optional 1 tart shell 1 large onion halved lengthwise and sliced thin 1 tablespoon dijon mustard 2 large eggs 8 ounces mascarpone or a bit

Classic Mornay Sauce

Servings: 2 cups Source: Emeril Lagasse, 2003 Ingredients 2½ tablespoons butter 3 ablespoons flour 2 cups milk, warmed ⅛ teaspoon white pepper 1/16 teaspoon nutmeg, freshly grated 2 ounces gruyere, grated Directions In a medium saucepan melt the butter over medium-high heat. Add the flour and cook, stirring constantly, until

Phil Plait says

The wind is no longer at Voyager’s back. It’s in the heliosheath. This means that in a few years Voyager will have left the solar system and be in the interstellar medium. Amazing. He adds: Imagine! It was launched before personal computers were everywhere, before cell phones, before

Aliens on Mars? Probably not

Phil Plait has a new post on his Bad Astronomy blog, referencing an article on Chandra Wickramasinghe’s claims that NASA is hiding evidence of life on Mars. It’s a good comment. There’s no good evidence for NASA hiding life, and Wickramasinghe has a tendency to cry wolf.

Beyond Crazy - Measuring Productivity

James Kwak on The Baseline Scenario has a new post, titled beyond crazy, making the case that simple attempts to measure professorial productivity are rather counterproductive. It’s in line with what I was saying earlier.

Monterey Seafood Watch

I’ve talked about this before, but not here. The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a well respected Seafood Watch program, giving advice on what seafood is harvested sustainably. This came to mind because I noticed that Orange Roughy was on the menu at a local seafood place. No one should

More on R&D from Ezra Klein

Ezra Klein says only 9% of our companies are innovating, according to an NSF study. There is a link in his article to an article by Michael Mandel, which is where Ezra got his info. This underscores the need for universities to do R&D, and thus, not to

James Gosling interview transcript

There’s a good interview with James Gosling at Basement Coders. Some comments on Sun, Oracle, the future of Java, Google, and much, much more.

Treating universities like businesses

I saw a link in Steve Benin’s Political Animal blog saying that Texas Governor Rick Perry wants to treat universities like a business, but that he has no idea what he’s talking about. Reading the article, they’re right. He has no idea what he’s talking about,

Civilization V

So Civilization V was released on Tuesday. I played most of a game on Tuesday without reading any documentation. It was pretty fun, but I wasn’t going to win it. Before starting another game, I’m reading other peoples’ experiences on Civ Fanatics and found Lemmy101’s experience highly