Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has strenuously denied that all those times he hung out with notorious pedophile…
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Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine keeps getting more accessible to home chefs. First it was a six-volume,…
When the six volume, 50-pound Modernist Cuisine collection came out last year, it was a beautiful and, in the eyes…
In a two-part interview about the massive coffee section in the even massiver 2400-page tome Modernist Cuisine by Nat…
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Even slowed down to 6,200 frames per second, popcorn popping happens so fast, if you blink at a moderate speed,…
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Patents! They're a big deal. Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures depends on patents to make money, and they…
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Nathan Myhrvold explains why failure is an option at Intellectual Ventures—and it has to be for any inventor,…
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It's pretty simple, says Intellectual Ventures' Nathan Myhrvold—lots more things being invented means lots more…
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Intellectual Ventures founder and modern day Merlin Nathan Myhrvold explains why it costs a lot of damn money to…
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"Did airplanes come from the R&D department of a train company or a steamship company?" Nathan Myhrvold asks,…
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Remember that amazing mosquito-zapping laser we saw a while back? Here is a better look at it and other tech which…
You're looking at a mosquito who got taken down mid-flight by a "Death Star" laser gun designed by Nathan Myhrvold.…
The Expendables Trailer Looks Incredibly Silly, Explosion-y...Microsoft's Nathan Myhrvold Wants to Dim the Sun With…
In fact, the idea is intended to save the planet from the scourge of global warming. The "Stratoshield", as he calls…
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Not content with being the world's richest man, Bill Gates is planning on extending his power to control the…
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Bill Gates may love his Ford Focus, but he's got plans to improve on age-old combustion, applying—along with Nathan…
Creating an organization bent on world domination takes more than just a maniacal leader with a high, cackling…
This may not be a typical gadget post, but here's an idea that fascinates me. Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of…
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Malcolm Gladwell (smart guy, puffy hair) has a feature in this week's
The New Yorker about the history of…
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