We love having The Cooking Lab team here. Their book, Modernist Cuisine was recently honored with two James Beard Awards: “Professional Cooking” and the top honor “Cookbook of the Year.” Established in 1990, the James Beard Foundation Awards recognize culinary professionals for excellence and achievement in their fields and continue to emphasize the Foundation’s mission: to [...]
What does it take to be an inventor? Lots of bad ideas and failures! Is it really so surprising? Inventors are on the lookout for not so obvious solutions, which is intrinsically a hit or miss process. Yet as you continuously engage problems, every once in a while you’ll find something big. Back in October, [...]
Nathan Myhrvold and I are on Freakonomics Radio. Alice Waters with her dreamy voice and romantic view of food versus Nathan’s “then you dunk it in liquid nitrogen” is a hilarious juxtaposition. Nathan of course is talking about the science of cooking and our Modernist Cuisine cookbook which ships next month. Part 2 is the [...]
For three years, Nathan has been directing and funding a team here at the Lab dedicated to culinary sciences. Chemists and chefs from some of the best restaurants in the world working on the cutting edge of applying scientific knowledge to the way we prepare food. They are just about to ship the cookbook they’ve [...]
The most important thing we are working on isn’t any particular invention. It is figuring out how to improve invention. What the world needs more than any of our inventions is a better ability to invent. This is what Intellectual Ventures is all about. Last night our founder, Nathan Myhrvold got a chance to explain [...]
For those of us who were unable to attend the TED conference back in February (my couch cushions just couldn’t quite turn up the $6,000 price of admission), we are in luck! Today, Nathan Myhrvold’s talk was released for the world to see. Check out our founder highlighting several of our malaria projects, along with [...]
On January 14, 2010, Philip Eckhoff was honored by the Hertz Foundation. He was nominated for contributions in the field of disease eradication modeling, which he worked on in his spare time while completing his doctorate at Princeton. The prize is not regularly awarded, but offered only in the midst of noteworthy accomplishment related to [...]
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