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Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
Born: Aug 3, 1959
Cooking Food People Will World You
Related authors: Bill Gates Henry Ford Jim Rohn Les Brown Peter Drucker Stephen Covey Steve Jobs Warren Buffett
Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water. Nathan Myhrvold
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Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded. Nathan Myhrvold
Work Truth You Car Face Politicians Gauge Meet Neglect Responsibilities No Choice Unpleasant Fired Fail Individuals Nobody Like Does Accountable Get Realities Plan Held Choice Stranded Your Ignore Gas
In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely. Nathan Myhrvold
Politics Religion Culture People World Worth Disagree Other Way Ruled Indefinitely Out Determine Area Ideas Ideologies Match Robust Scientific Scientific Method Real Equivalent Method Persist The Real World Real World Conflicting Which Competing
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology. Nathan Myhrvold
Science Discipline Ideology Precepts Few Down Nailed Economists Still Debates Want Clouded Many
The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not? Nathan Myhrvold
Law Secular Sperm OK Says Would Would-Be Religious Similar Only Only Difference Adult Combination Genetic Principle Another Material Cloning Replaced Egg Cell Difference Procedure Humanist
When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it. Nathan Myhrvold
Love Thanksgiving Home Great Library Cooking Mother Old Dinner Nine Books Say Out About Point Announced Sort Pile Got Years Did Going Whenever Turned Cook Who Whole Serious
Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free. Nathan Myhrvold
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting. Nathan Myhrvold
You People Software Because Bunch Person Want Interesting Amount
The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better. Nathan Myhrvold
Technology Science Better Problems Chemistry Batteries Battery Slowly About Come Make Materials Existing Bunch Trying Gets Depressing Whole Thing
Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing. Nathan Myhrvold
Amazing Lobster Dried Tail Raw Freeze
What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig. Nathan Myhrvold
You Dig Once Out Find Dinosaur See Something Dirt Hike Look Sticking Expedition Ground Bones
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether. Nathan Myhrvold
You Accident Every Involves Operator Altogether Error Want Serious Nuclear Eliminate
Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft. Nathan Myhrvold
Age Wonderful Space Wine Red Red Wine Spacecraft
The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil. Nathan Myhrvold
Democracy Better Evil Hopeless Goodness Live Intrinsic Some Potential Democratic Alternatives Inefficiency Because Governments Than Blunt Places Reason Helps Basic Societies
Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men. Nathan Myhrvold
Life Funny Space Alien Men Other Trek Extraterrestrial Hundred Visions Neighbors Running Most Operas Mostly Hubris Than Human Fictional Place Less Many Star Star Trek Actually
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside. Nathan Myhrvold
Food You Cooking Physics Water Inside Steak Mostly Because Central Cook Actually
If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat. Nathan Myhrvold
Food You Safety About Talk Heat Then
The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it. Nathan Myhrvold
Great You Girl Meets Tell Great Literature Delight Delights Facts Idea Makes Boy How Surprise Loses Surprises Gets Behind Just Difference Dish Literature Us Here
If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important. Nathan Myhrvold
You People Important Find Threatening Doing Very Then
We should have more invention. Nathan Myhrvold
Invention More Should
If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you. Nathan Myhrvold
Good You Rights People Case Inventions Good Thing Take No-One Get Patents Going Them Enforce Next Next Level Paid Your Who Many Thing Level Position
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing! Nathan Myhrvold
Game Facebook Further Bought Doing Huge Patent Microsoft Strategic Apple Portfolio
Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams. Nathan Myhrvold
Dreams Important Our Our Dreams Only Instead Powerful Safe Important Issue Issue Burns Fuel Creating Your Your Dreams Waste Nuclear Actually
I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business. Nathan Myhrvold
Hope Great Business Way Would Would-Be Lawsuit Unrealistic Lawsuits Could Never Doing Patent May If I Could Avoid File Ridiculous
Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor. Nathan Myhrvold
Recipe Secret Inventor Die
Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs. Nathan Myhrvold
You Plants Weather Looking Nice Find Dinosaur Dinosaurs See Horrible Hike Because Around Sounds Dumb Conditions Erosion Get Any Wherever Really Grow Now
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