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...grave air of a medieval disputation, one of those deep discussions in which 13th-century theologians debated the finer points of monotheism. In a highly anticipated panel discussion earlier this week at the international culinary conference Madrid Fusion, Ferran Adrià, Heston Blumenthal, and Andoni Luis Aduriz took on the pressing question of whether molecular gastronomy is for real. Considering that the three chefs are widely considered to be the leading practitioners of molecular gastronomy, it came as something of an ontological relief to learn that it - and thus they - do exist...
...midnight screening hours ago, the movie just wasn't that memorable. Suffice to say that there's much bounding about by furry, blurry CGI werewolves, quite a few decapitations and a poignant but nifty crisping of one of the vampires when exposed to sunlight. Being set in an earlier day (night), Lycans renounces the whizzing Matrix-like bullets of the first two movies for swords and a heavy-metal bow-and-arrow contraption that brings certain death to just about anyone but Lucian...
...week earlier, on Jan. 8, the SEC came knocking on Joseph Forte's door in Broomall, Pa., for allegedly scamming 80 investors out of $50 million. Forte had been selling false securities in limited partnerships since 1995. Forte's forte, the SEC says, was in reporting consistent annual returns of 18% to 37%. In actuality, the fund's only real consistency was in its losses. On Sept. 30, 2008, Forte said his fund was valued at $150 million, while the actual balance was about $147,000. Whoops! (See the worst business deals...
Meanwhile the science on climate change grows more dire. James Hansen, NASA's climate expert, reported in a recent paper that the world needed to stabilize carbon in the atmosphere at 350 parts per million (ppm) to avoid the worst effects of warming - a more stringent goal than earlier estimates, which had a target of 450 ppm. (The current concentration is 385 ppm and rising fast, up from a pre-industrial level of 280 ppm.) That would require action that is far more ambitious than currently seems possible - both in the U.S. and in the developing world, where the bulk...
...time of plunging stock markets, bank bailouts and deepening recession, the economic data released by the Chinese government on Thursday might be enough to make many drool. GDP for the world's third-largest economy surged 9% in 2008 from the year earlier. But first looks can be deceiving. The statistics also showed just how quickly and severely the global economy decelerated in the latter part of the year. China's growth in the fourth quarter, at 6.8%, was the slowest the country has experienced in seven years. Compare that figure to the first half of 2008, when growth...