Category: Miscellaneous

  • Quotable quote

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    “The legendary cellist Pablo Casals was asked why he continued to practice at age 90. ‘Because I think I’m making progress,’ he replied.” From The Little Red Book of New York Wisdom. Copyright 2011 by Gregg Stebben and Jason Katzman, Skyhorse Publishing, with an Introduction by Former Mayor Ed Koch. Send in interesting quotes to be included…

  • Technophilia

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    By Arthur Rothste in and George Barany George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977) currently on the faculty of the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities. Arthur Rothstein is a software pathologist and plumber in San Francisco. Some 45 years ago, they were teammates on the Stuyvesant High School Math Team. For more about this specific puzzle,…

  • Quotable Quote

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    “I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim.” Frida Kahlo, quoted in The Independent (U.K.)

  • Free Spring Breaks in New York: An April Calendar

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    By Susan Russo Manhattan Macy’s Flower Show When: April 1-4 Where: 34th Street and Seventh Avenue   Central Park Tour When: April 4, 12-1:00pm Where: 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue   Center Park Tour When: April 4, 2:00-3:00pm Where: 110th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenue   Center Park Tour When: April 5, 10:00-11:30am Where: 110th…

  • Now He Belongs to the Ages

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    By George Barany and Marcia Brott George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977). Marcia Brott is a human genome researcher by day, wordsmith by night. Both are currently at the University of Minnesota. For more about this specific puzzle, including a link to the answer, visit http://tinyurl.com/april1865puz. More Barany and Friends crosswords are at http://tinyurl.com/gbpuzzle.…

  • What is Traditional Irish Soda Bread for $100, Alex?

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    By Aileen Marshall Saint Patrick’s Day is coming up and that means there will be sales for corned beef and cabbage and traditional Irish soda bread. I myself, of Irish decent, only became aware of Irish soda bread as a young adult. I went through several recipes given to me by friends and family, before…

  • Baby, It’s Cold Outside

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    By George Barany and Marcia Brott George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977). Marcia Brott is a human genome researcher by day, wordsmith by night. Both are currently at the University of Minnesota. For more about this specific puzzle, including a link to the answer, visit http://tinyurl.com/wonderlandpuz. More Barany and Friends crosswords are at http://tinyurl.com/gbpuzzle.

  • Checkers’ Mate!

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    By George Barany and Daniel Silversmith George Barany is a Rockefeller alum (1977) who currently lives in the Twin Cities, Minnesota, where he has known Daniel Silversmith, a practicing clinical psychologist, since 1999. For more about this specific puzzle, including a link to the answer, visit http://tinyurl.com/checkerspuz. More Barany and Friends crosswords are at http://tinyurl.com/gbpuzzle.…

  • Twenty-four visits to Stockholm: a concise history of the Rockefeller Nobel Prizes

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    Part III: Herbert Gasser, 1944 Prize in Physiology or Medicine By Joseph Luna It started with a twitch. Sometime around 1770 in Bologna, Luigi Galvani charged his Leiden jar, an early capacitor, with static electricity using a hand cranked friction machine. He then took a wire connected to the jar and touched it to the…

  • Thanksgiving’s Traditional Main Course

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    By Susan Russo Benjamin Franklin, an American founder, philosopher, diplomat, and bon vivant, famously wrote to his daughter Sarah, “I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the Representation of our Country; he is a bird of bad moral Character….The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original Native…