Kevin Meyer

Yesterday the New York Times ran piece by Elizabeth Dias, its national religion correspondent, on how Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah has been quietly bringing religious scholars (Catholic, Jewish, Sikh, evangelical, Ubuntu, and others) into private sessi…

I've run many manufacturing lines in the past, and seen hundreds more, including some exemplary examples of lean while visiting companies in Japan.

Serves: 4 Total time: ~45 minutes for the fish and cabbage salad; add ~40 minutes for the hindbeh, which is best made ahead Difficulty: Moderate Diet: Pescatarian, no shellfish Sides: Salatet Malfouf (cabbage salad) and Hindbeh bi Zeit (bitter greens with…

Time flies, but some memories - and the lessons from them - remain vivid.

Earlier this week I spent two days in a renovated old milking barn with a couple dozen improvement professionals from healthcare, government, higher education, and a handful of well-known consultants.

Early in my career, yes decades ago, I worked on the development of oximetry catheters.

The rain in Copenhagen came down hard one afternoon but we still walked a couple miles to the iconic Little Mermaid statue.

I spent the month of June in Malta, Greece, and Switzerland.

My grammar can be atrocious, and I know exactly why.

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Kumamoto Prefecture a couple weeks ago.

I haven't set an alarm in decades.

A vegetarian grain-bowl reconstruction of United Airlines' "Spiced Quinoa" — itself a deconstruction of the Mexican classic chiles en nogada Serves: 4 | Total time: ~50 minutes | Difficulty: Moderate | Diet: Vegetarian Origin Charred poblano, walnut cream…

In 1969 Volker Strassen found a way to multiply two 4×4 matrices using 49 scalar multiplications instead of the obvious 64.

For years I've predicted that the tipping point for autonomous vehicles will arrive on an actuary's spreadsheet.

From my Cooking the World series...

Right now, sitting wherever you are, you're surrounded by things you cannot perceive.

One of my few real regrets in life is choosing to go to an almost entirely engineering school.

The New York Times just published another installment of its focus challenge series: an ultra-high-resolution photograph of the Grand Central Terminal ceiling, stitched together from 232 close-up images, with a simple instruction.