My Grill by Pete Evans

Aussie TV chef Pete Evans has written a new book, My Grill, which giveshe BBQ with a sophisticated spin with dishes such as Spiced Lamb Skewers with Pomegranate Molasses, Baby Octopus with Smoked Spanish Paprika and Sweet & Sour Capsicum and French Toast with Figs.

Hat tip: PSFK

What Went Wrong

What Went Wrong is an eight-week online interactive series that looks at the causes of the global financial crisis, from Big Think, a “global forum connecting people and ideas,” which has an archive of video interviews with more than 600 experts including and astronaut and a former mayor of NYC. What Went Wrong [...]

UK Journalists on Twitter

If you are interested in what UK journalists are up to or you are trying to track someone down (but not, however, stalk them) you’d do worse than head over to PR Blogger.com for an exhaustive list of journalists from Channel4, News of the World, Cosmopolitan, NME and New Scientist and beyond.

Polymaths

Intelligent Life published an article suggesting that it is increasingly difficult these days to be a polymath, as education systems and professional pressures conspire against people who have interests in more than one area. They also publish a list of 20 living polymaths – all of them male and most of them elderly. Where are [...]

Tech Toys for Pets

Elio Caccavale, designer and lecturer at Central St. Martin’s college in London,  works at the intersection of art and science and presents work described as “social fiction” to spark debate about emerging technologies and the impact they might have on people’s lives.
He’s recently invented Toy Communicator, which is like a baby sensor for pets that [...]

Suburban Housewife

Suzy Jenkins is the Suburban Housewife. See her rap (lots of mofos, so keep the volume down/get ready to beep if you listen at work):

Periodic Table of Experts

If you are looking for interesting experts (or interesting websites), check out Make: Technology on Your Time, which has a series of experts explaining their passions.
Watch Bruce Hood from the University of Bristol talk about the supernatural:

or Fiorenzo Omenetto, a professor of biomedical engineering at Tufts University who loves silk:

or Theodore Gray who loves the [...]

How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberry

Adrian Colesberry is a biomedical engineer with a failed marriage behind him and a new career in front of him as a comedian, sexpert (he’s a volunteer sex ed teacher in high schools) and film extra (Spiderman, Entourage, Boston Legal and ER). Whilst not doing much on set, he wrote a “dirty, dirty book” called [...]

MacArthur Fellows

Every year 24 outstanding US citizens are awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ grants of $500,000 over five years that they can use at their discretion.  Winners are confidentially nominated and know nothing of the process until they receive a call telling them they’ve been selected.  This years lucky recipients include an ornithologist, an evolutionary biologist, a biogeochemist [...]

Top Twitterers in Academia

Current has published a list of the top 100 US professors who twitter, including:

@sreenet: Sree Sreenivasan a journalism professor at Columbia who tweets technology and media news.
@PaulLev: Paul Levinson  NYC-based sci fi writer
@alicejrobison:  Associate professor at Arizona State who tweets about social media and video games.
@urbanexus: H. Pike Oliver tweets about urban development and the economic [...]