Grilled cheese is elemental. All you need is the right cheese (I like Gruyere or sharp cheddar), the right bread (I go for a soft sandwich bread), a little butter and a pan, and you’re on the way to a quick, simple, satisfying meal. Or at least the main thrust of one, rounded out by good old tomato soup and/or a salad.
But you don’t need a recipe for a plain grilled cheese sandwich, do you? Read More...
Nine months ago, I went on a road trip to Richmond to see hundreds of people try to win $50,000 by playing a card game about swamps and elk and math. But the whole way there, I kept thinking about heroes. We’ve often been uncomfortable with heroes — the book “A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich” dates to 1973 — but in an era when the world needed them more than ever, they seemed to be in short supply. Read More...
- Hey, smart people.
Joe here.
If your science education was anything like mine, you probably learned about the scientific method.
The way it's taught to us, you make an observation and you come up with a guess about what's going on, and then you test that idea with an experiment to figure out if you're right or wrong.
Rinse, repeat, Newton's your uncle, and hopefully you end up with a better picture of reality than you had yesterday. Read More...