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Nathan Myhrvold
American
Businessman
Born:
Aug 3
,
1959
Cooking
Food
People
Will
World
You
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When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
Nathan Myhrvold
People
First
Think
Insane
Would
Most
Said
Cuisine
Did
Modernist
Cookbook
Publishing
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
Nathan Myhrvold
You
Gun
Somebody
Pretty
High-Speed
Soon
Block
Camera
Gets
One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.
Nathan Myhrvold
Good
Frankly
Jobs
Daring
Greatest
Doing
Were
Greatest Things
Very
Did
Different
Cookbook
Different Thing
Apple
Thing
Things
Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.
Nathan Myhrvold
You
Risks
Remember
Few
Asteroid
Flying
Out
All-Out
Impacts
Entire
About
Risk
Could
Wipe
Put
Mortality
Like
Most
However
Commercial
Same
Human
Estimates
Race
Plane
Us
Really
Human Race
Riding
Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
Nathan Myhrvold
Moon
Men
Project
Relic
Unprecedented
About
Something
Putting
Perhaps
Make
Within
NASA
Did
Going
Orbit
Apollo
Creating
Comparison
Recall
Routine
Designed
Technologies
Shuttle
We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.
Nathan Myhrvold
Heart
Culture
People
Space
Example
Think
Our
Worships
Clark
Collectively
Only
Part
Supporting
For Example
Look
Fame
American
American Culture
Want
Nostalgia
Place
Themselves
American People
Manned
Apollo
Exploration
Explorers
Flight
Special
Special Place
Element
Program
Lewis
Lewis And Clark
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