Jason Mattera asks Hillary Clinton to inscribe Hard Choices to Christopher Stevens. “I think you knew him.”
Excellent!
We caught up with Hillary outside a book event and asked her to inscribe “Hard Choice” to Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador she failed to provide with the proper security to fend off the Benghazi attacks.
Alex Bellos demonstrates cutting a cake using scientific principles.
Brilliant!
In 1906, Sir Francis Galton proposed a way to cut a round cake so that the exposed inside does not go stale. For some reason, his method of cutting a cake did not catch on. Numberphile explains it to us, which is interesting in a geometric way, but only truly useful for people who have a round cake and find themselves eating it over several days all by themselves. Which is sad. Galton must have been a lonely man. When I bake a cake, there isn’t any at all left by the next day. And if you do eat cake by yourself, here’s a tip: you don’t have to put it in the refrigerator.
