Last October, Almond, the unpretentious French bistro that's become a Bridgehampton hotspot, boldly expanded to Manhattan with an outpost in the Flatiron district. But even before the city's economy drifted into its current deep funk, chef/co-owner Jason Weiner faced a daunting task: finding a way t...

by Dave Mindeman Do the math. Whenever anyone says that I guess the insinuation is supposed to be..hey, this is simple. It all adds up. Craig Westover, at the Minnesota Free Market Institute, likes that phrase. Using mathematics is good for discussions. It is straight forward and answers are absolut...

Language Game "Music, mathematics, and chess are in vital respects dynamic acts of location. Symbolic counters are arranged in significant rows. Solutions, be they of a discord, of an algebraic equation, or of a positional impasse, are achieved by a regrouping, by a sequential reordering of individu...

The discussion over quality in higher education and maintaining standards of academic excellence in American colleges took an ugly turn March 2nd when Harvard law professor and former Clinton Administration lightning rod Lani Guinier declared that standardized testing is racist. Guinier’s remarks ...

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” said Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. “This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before.” Proves my point about a stimulus bill really being a spending bill. Purely an opportunity to leverage a...

From Science News : The one source of truth is mathematics. Every statement is a pure logical deduction from foundational axioms, resulting in absolute certainty. Since Andrew Wiles proved Fermat’s Last Theorem, you’d be safe betting your life on it. Well … in theory. The reality, though, is t...

Vice President Joe Biden appeared before the annual conference of the AFL-CIO executive council today – and seemed to relish every minute. “All kidding aside,” he said as he recalled the chill between the Bush administration and organized labor. “I was told by [AFL-CIO] President John Sweeney th...

www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm  T HE SIGNEE'S NAMES CAN BE FOUND ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER SOME TEXT FROM ABOVE LINK Political leaders gathered in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997 to consider a world treaty restricting human production of "greenhouse gases," chiefly...

The French director talks to Nick Bradshaw about judging music video competitions, working with Bjork and resisting the temptations of the internet "I think I have to be honest," says Michel Gondry down the phone from New York. "I got paid a great amount of money to do it." The music-video wunderkin...

"After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well."Albert Einstein-Dopplereffekts 'Calabi Yau Space' album came out in June 2007 on the UK's Rephlex label. This was only...