Ken's Blog

Alcohol Addiction Counseling Therapist This effects many people. My wife is a licensed therapist that specializes in addition counseli...

Recycling Plastic is a Joke I'm sad to say this but I now throw it in the garbage. Because I suspect that's where 99.9% of i...

Ken's Shepards Pie Crush a few cloves of garlic and saute in olive oil for a couple of minutes in a heavy pan such as a dutch oven...

Chat with Albert Einstein This is just the beginning of AI. 1. Log into your Gmail account. 2. Go to https://gemini.google.com/ ...

Ken's Minestrone Soup Crush a few cloves of garlic and saute in olive oil for a couple of minutes in a heavy pan such as a dutch o...

Is Recycling Plastic a Joke? It makes you feel good.. but it does not happen. Only 5% of plastic is recycled. The rest ends up in ...

In praise of the Number 3 Over the years I've come to suspect that 3 might be very special. It's obviously critical for th...

Packaging - Where massive waste happens So you've worked hard and developed a great consumer product. Now all you have to do i...

Cataract Surgery - The Amazing Details The main thing to know about cataract surgey is that it's a complete replacement of the len...

Ken's Garlic Toast Tower Easy to make, tasty, a appetizer, or a side dish or dunk in your soup. Plus, stack high for a conversat...

Ken's Paella Originally developed as a picnic dish, it's almost impossible to get a real Paella anymore. Throw all ingredients i...

How to become Dictator of the United States So you want to become Dictator of the United States? No problem. Just follow these 4 steps.....

Gravlax by Odette Gravlax is salmon that's cured in a special mixture. The curing process gives the salmon a unique flavor and textu...

Professional Poetry - How to write it Poetry is the Fado of the written word. Many try their hand at poetry, but alas what comes o...

The history (and future) of the transistor It amazes me that all our (non-quantum) computing is based on one simple logic element.. the...

Ken's Rhubarb Jam Get some fresh Rhubarb. Cut off the leaves (Rhubarb leaves are poisonous). Trim off the top and bottom of the ...

Sigmund Freud - A snake oil salesman? It's nothing he did and it's nothing he wrote. But after all these years there's s...

Cooking With Garlic I love Garlic. I buy it fresh from the local farmer's market whenever possible. I saute it in olive oil in one o...

Take a Drive in a Driverless Taxi My friend recently visited San Francisco. He went out for lunch and then took a taxi back to the...

Memories from my Schooldays - The Electrocution Incident Not long after the sodium incident came the electrocution incident. Me an...

Memories from my Schooldays - The Sodium Incident It started many years ago when I was at Marple Hall Grammar School (age 16). I had t...

Re-phrasing the Goldbach Conjecture It's the most famous conjecture in all of Math. "Every even integer greater than 2 can b...

The Monte Hall Problem - with the answer You're on a game show. It's very simple. There are 3 doors. Behind one is a gold bar ...

Quantum Computers - What they can and cannot do Quantum Computers will never replace conventional computers for a simple reason: they ...

Ken's (fast) Risotto Making a great Risotto takes time and quite a bit of skill. So here's a fast version that's still ama...

Ken's Drumsticks Take a few chicken drumsticks, dry well and throw into a baking dish. Add chopped bell peppers, chopped...

The origin of the Internet - My personal story In 1972 I was working at a national research lab in the UK. While waiting for one of my...

Ken's simple soup It's so simple. Get a a big pot with a lid, then add a small chicken with most but not all skin removed, o...

Ken's scrambled eggs Scrambled eggs are easy, right? Wrong. At her first cooking lesson in France Julia Child blew this. Take ...

Ken's baked vegetable melange Take a large bowl. Add the vegetebles: sliced brussel sprouts, chopped onions, crushed garlic cl...

Unclaimed Property is huge - an expert explains why The following is an explanation of Unclaimed Property and the importance of what l...

The 7 Stages of Dementia Dementia is a broad term that refers to loss of mental ability. It has many forms, perhaps the most well know...

Ken's Recipe for frozen lobster tails Get some frozen lobster tails. Rinse them in warm water and let them come to room temperatur...

Ken's Fruit Platter - Grapes, Mango and Figs Take you favorite grapes and arrage them in a single line all around the edge o...

Graphene Optical Fiber - Better than glass Research is underway to develop optical fiber made from graphene. Graphene offers several a...

US Healthcare - Anatomy of a US medical bill Are healthcare costs draining you? Here's the anatomy of a US medical bill. I...

Ken's Chicken in one dish This is not a sophisticated recipe, but it's fast, fresh, tasty and healthy. And it's design...

Ken's Coconut Shrimp Fast, easy, healthy and delish. Chop some onions, fresh garlic and fresh ginger and fry in olive oil un...

Ken's Almond Cake No flour, no sugar. Get 2 cups of whole raw plain almonds. Grind them to whatever level you like. I like a c...

AI meets Radiology Perhaps Radiology is not such a great career after all. A study published by Stanford University in 2023 found...

Ken's Broiled Swordfish Get a swordfish steak and dry it well. Pour on a bit of olive oil and rub all over. Then add fresh gr...

Ken's Side Dish - that goes with almost anything Chop up some potatoes, dry them and put in a casserole dish. Do the same with an ...

Ken's Brined Chicken or Turkey Brining chicken or turkey before cooking keeps it moist and juicy and prevents that terrible ...

Ken's Baked Pears - Super fast and tasty Get a few of your favorite pears. I use BOSC because they're crisp and not too sweet....

Ken's Baked Butternut Squash Get a butternut squash from your local Farmer's Market. While you're there buy some bulbs of ...

Ken's Poached Salmon Get a chunk of wild salmon. Butter a caserole dish and place the salmon in it skin down. Grind on f...

Tubes and TV Back in the 60's before modern electronics TVs were driven by tubes. Wonderful orange glowing globes. My father l...

Ken's Gazpacho Easy, healthy and delish. First the liquid. Get a large can of San Marzano tomatoes. Make sure it has the DOP s...

Ken's Salmon Burgers Saute some finely chopped onions and garlic in olive oil, add a grind of fresh pepper and a pinch of sal...

Ken's baked Endive This is fast, tasty and healthy. Take a few endive, cut off the base then slice lengthwise. Mix in a bowl w...

Ken's very versatile Recipe This is not a sophisticated recipe, but it's fast, fresh, tasty and healthy. And if you're ser...

Debit Cards for Kids An interesting new market and these guys seem to be leading the way. My grandkids (ages 6 and 8) just got the...

Ken's Italian Burger - A different burger Get some Italian hot sausages. If you don't like spicy then get Italian sweet sa...

Ken's Salmon Balls Most people love meat balls, so let's do salmon balls. Saute some finely chopped onions and ga...

Stuffed Peppers - My Recipe Take red and yellow peppers. Not green, they can be bitter. Slice the top off. Then reach in and pu...

Gordon Walker - British Physicist He was my PhD supervisor at the Rutherford Lab in the UK. It's a national physics research Lab. ...

Rosalind Franklin - and DNA She died at 37 from ovarian cancer. But not before she played a critical role in the discovery of the double...

Richard Mitchell - The Underground Grammarian Richard Mitchell wrote the Underground Grammarian. He was a professor of English and class...

Tofu and Seaweed Soup This recipe is a bit strange, but fast and tasty. And seaweed is full of nutrients and anti-oxidents. Take som...

Bard - Google's new AI agent Recently renamed from Bard to Gemini. Gemini can answer almost any question you ask. Almost anythin...

How are your eyes? I go for regular eye exams. But I just printed the Amsler Grid and tested myself. It took me 30 seconds to find a pro...

The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman In the early days of August 1914 Germany mobilized seven armies. Their plan, years in the making...

A simple use of Calculus You're fencing in a rectangular garden against a wall. So no fence is needed along the wall. You have...

Guns in America Guns in America are totally out of control. There is no other way to describe it. Period. Young school kids are d...

Ken’s SAT Math Strategy I tutor SAT Math and over the years I’ve learned a lot. This crib sheet is short and sweet, but it’s the result ...

AI Algebra Tutor It turns out that Gemini (Google's AI agent) can do algebra. Here's an example: Me: Find the roots of the...

Ken's Smashed Potatoes - An easy potato dish Take a few cloves of garlic, crush and chop course. Put in a bowl, add some olive oil a...