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The Mind of a Chef

From tamales to bubble and squeak, South Carolina to Senegal, Long Island to London, and frogging to high tea, The Mind of a Chef, the James Beard Award winning public television series, combines travel, cooking, history, science, and humor into an extraordinary journey that peers inside the processes and explores what drives and inspires the culinary vision of some of the country’s most innovative chefs. In Season 2, executive producer and narrator Anthony Bourdain takes viewers inside the heads of two renowned chefs: Sean Brock and April Bloomfield. Click here to learn more about episodes from season 2 of The Mind of a Chef. Watch a Preview. Reddit: the front page of the internet.

An Independent Nonprofit Research Institute. Marvin Minsky's Home Page. MIT Media Lab and MIT AI Lab Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Professor of E.E.C.S., M.I.Tminsky at media.mit.edu Abstracts Bibliography Biography People Marvin Minsky has made many contributions to AI, cognitive psychology, mathematics, computational linguistics, robotics, and optics.

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In recent years he has worked chiefly on imparting to machines the human capacity for commonsense reasoning. His conception of human intellectual structure and function is presented in two books: The Emotion Machine and The Society of Mind (which is also the title of the course he teaches at MIT). He received the BA and PhD in mathematics at Harvard (1950) and Princeton (1954).

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Microcredit

For financial services to the poor, see Microfinance. For small payments, see Micropayment. Microcredit is part of microfinance, which provides a wider range of financial services, especially savings accounts, to the poor. Modern microcredit is generally considered to have originated with the Grameen Bank founded in Bangladesh in 1983.[3] Many traditional banks subsequently introduced microcredit despite initial misgivings. The United Nations declared 2005 the International Year of Microcredit. History[edit] Early Beginnings[edit] Ideas relating to microcredit can be found at various times in modern history. Modern microcredit[edit] Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, which is generally considered the first modern microcredit institution.

Principles[edit] Economic principles[edit] Ironically, many microcredit organizations now function as independent banks. Group lending[edit] Microfinance meeting in Tzaneen, South Africa. Kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products. Jkottke. New York Times. NYTimes.com The world’s premier news site.

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Enjoy unlimited access to the world’s finest journalism, with continuous coverage of the most important news, issues and newsmakers, plus provocative opinion and innovative multimedia. 24-Hour News Desk The New York Times newsroom is a 24-hour operation, with journalists in New York, across the nation and around the world reporting on critical events as they unfold. Videos On a wide array of topics — from top news to new films to the latest technology — our videos capture events, issues and newsmakers, from the unique perspectives of renowned Times journalists.

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The Scariest Cable Car Rides on Earth

And scenic view or not, what if only a steel box, suspended by a wire, keeps you from dropping thousands of feet down? With dozens if not hundreds of cable car routes around the world, it’s not easy to pick the scariest ones. We’ve found eleven that made our stomachs feel more than a bit queasy. China’s Tianmen Chan or Heaven’s Gate Mountain, pictured here, is located about 8 km south of the city of Zhangjiajie (formerly Dayong) in the northern province of Hunan.

Visitors wanting to enjoy the view have only two options for getting up, neither of them very attractive: Either walking up 999 steps to the top of the mountain without platforms for stopping, or taking the cable car. Simone Preuss Scribol Staff. Dim Sum Funeral (2008. Castaway on the Moon. User Rating Current user rating: 94 (222 votes)You didn't vote on this yet.

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