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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

Southwest Potatoes with cheddar, corn, and patience

I made Mark Bittman’s Southwest Potatoes from September 7th’s New York Times. Excellent! The recipe includes corn kernels, which you brown with chilis in oil, potatoes, which you cube and cook in oil, and then you add them together, along with some black beans and chili powder, and