The World's Most Beautiful Cookbook Is Now a Beautiful App
Nathan Myhrvold's Modernist Cuisine keeps getting more accessible to home chefs. First it was a six-volume, 50-pound,…
Modernist Cuisine at Home Will Come Full of Recipes You Can Actually Use
When the six volume, 50-pound Modernist Cuisine collection came out last year, it was a beautiful and, in the eyes of…
Crazy Coffee Science: Why You Should Salt Your Coffee and Expensive Espresso Machines Are Worth It
In a two-part interview about the massive coffee section in the even massiver 2400-page tome Modernist Cuisine by Nathan…
Popcorn Exploding at 6,200 Frames Per Second Is Curiously Calming
Even slowed down to 6,200 frames per second, popcorn popping happens so fast, if you blink at a moderate speed,…
How Nathan Myhrvold and Intellectual Ventures Would Change the Patent System
Patents! They're a big deal. Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures depends on patents to make money, and they file…
Why Failure Is an Option When It Comes to Inventing
Nathan Myhrvold explains why failure is an option at Intellectual Ventures—and it has to be for any inventor, really.…
Why We Need More Inventions. Lots More Inventions.
It's pretty simple, says Intellectual Ventures' Nathan Myhrvold—lots more things being invented means lots more…
Why Ideas Are Expensive
Intellectual Ventures founder and modern day Merlin Nathan Myhrvold explains why it costs a lot of damn money to…
How Intellectual Ventures Wants to Reinvent Invention
"Did airplanes come from the R&D department of a train company or a steamship company?" Nathan Myhrvold asks,…
Mad Scientists With Lasers Wage War On Malaria And Mosquitos
Remember that amazing mosquito-zapping laser we saw a while back? Here is a better look at it and other tech which…
This Is a Mosquito Getting Killed By a Laser
You're looking at a mosquito who got taken down mid-flight by a "Death Star" laser gun designed by Nathan Myhrvold.…
Remainders - Things We Didn't Post
The Expendables Trailer Looks Incredibly Silly, Explosion-y...Microsoft's Nathan Myhrvold Wants to Dim the Sun With…
Former Microsoft Technology Chief Wants To Block Out the Sun With Liquid Sulfur
In fact, the idea is intended to save the planet from the scourge of global warming. The "Stratoshield", as he calls…
Bill Gates Patent Could Save Us From Another Hurricane Katrina
Not content with being the world's richest man, Bill Gates is planning on extending his power to control the weather.…
Gates, Myhrvold To Patent Crazy Electromagnetic Combustion Engine
Bill Gates may love his Ford Focus, but he's got plans to improve on age-old combustion, applying—along with Nathan…
Bill Gates' Made Men: The Wild 'n' Crazy Ventures of the Microsoft Millionaires
Creating an organization bent on world domination takes more than just a maniacal leader with a high, cackling voice.…
All Things D: Nathan Myhrvold, Founder of Intellectual Ventures
This may not be a typical gadget post, but here's an idea that fascinates me. Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft,…
The New Yorker on Simultaneous Invention and the Intellectual Ventures Laboratories
Malcolm Gladwell (smart guy, puffy hair) has a feature in this week's
The New Yorker about the history of simultaneous…