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In Modernist Cuisine, Myrvhold et al advocate for a sous vide chili oil. Roast the chilis and other ingredients at about 250 in the oven, then sous vide at 158. Never made it mysel…

A similar story took place with checkers in the mid 20th century. People discovered that Senegalese players, who played a similar but not identical game, had transferable skills an…

The sequence of mutations leading to Omicron is a one-off. Presumably, if there were a thousand variants with the same N mutations as Omicron, you'd see ratios like the ones you de…

As one might guess, there is a lot wrong with this list even within there stated goals. My examples are drawn from mathematics, since that's what I know. They appear to use the jou…

Certainly some that were active in the last 50 years, though it's hard to think of any that were trained in that time-frame: Gelfand and Ian MacDonald are the first pair that come …

Since its proposal, the lonely runner conjecture has been an enticing open math problem accessible to anyone. Using polyhedral techniques, Matthias Beck (a prominent combinatoriali…