June 2010
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Brioche
Brioche: A Bread For Breakfast, Lunch, or Dinner It wasn’t cake that Marie Antoinette wanted to feed to the masses. Her instructions were actually, “Let them eat brioche.” Brioche is certainly as rich and buttery as cake, but that’s where the similarities end. Brioche is definitely more of a bread than it is a...
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Pixels
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Color
In 1704, Isaac Newton wrote Optiks, a book that changed everything. The principal aim of the work was to show that the refraction of light into the colors of the spectrum was a necessary phenomenon, and subsequently that the separate colors could be put back together as white light. Newton developed a color wheel, which summed up the entirety of his theories on optics. From this point forward in...
“More will sometimes be demanded of you than is reasonable. Bear it meekly, and...”
– - Horace Mann
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“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It1’...”
– Helen Keller
May 2010
9 posts
“Waking up this morning, I smile. 24 brand new hours are before me. I vow to live...”
– Tatsuya Ishida 