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Summer BBQ time! - CookbooksPart 1: Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook

‘ Nature forms patterns. Some are orderly in space but disorderly in time, others orderly in time but disorderly in space .’ - James Gleick ‘Chaos’ A few years ago I bought this book for a little bit of light reading over summer. It turned out that it wasn’t, and isn’t, the type of ‘light reader’ you look for over summer. Though it was while...

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Simplexity: Things are a lot simpler than they seem and vice versa

... Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple) Chaos: Making a New Science , by James Gleick In French, La simplexité by Alain Berthoz If you know about fractals and chaos, you must be already familiar with that fact that simplicity can bring complexity quickly and easily. But you might not know this term of simplexity. More generally, each time you think...

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The Ugliest Wiring Wins

... them, I can’t find a thing. Period. End of story. There is order in chaos and chaos in order . James Gleick wrote a fantastic book about the science of chaos that is worth checking out some time. If chaos is a science consider the papers, books, thumb drives, DVDs, products waiting to be reviewed and computer screens on my desk to be the Super Collider of Chaos . Just wait until something...