Cast iron cookware is the greatest cookware on the planet. There, I said it. I received my first cast iron skillet shortly before leaving home for college. I was an ignorant novice and completely failed to properly maintain it. I ended up with a sticky, gunky mess at the bottom of my skillet that left […]

I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions. The concept is simultaneously noble and flawed, brilliant and defective. As humans, we know we are capable of (and require) constant growth and improvement. We rarely make a conscious effort to change, though. That’s why January 1 is such a tantalizing reset button. This iteration is perhaps even

When I write a personal rendition of My Favorite Things, podcasts will inevitably be on the list. I listen to them while walking to class, cooking, washing dishes, solving Rubik’s cubes…you get the idea. When executed well, they can transport you to a new world, make you think deeply about a novel idea, or even

If you’ve met me, you know I like space. The infinite nature of the universe, our smallness in comparison, the unending possibilities of discovery. You also know I like Rubik’s cubes. On a smaller scale, the cube is equally infinite. There are over 43 quintillion permutations of the 3×3 cube, a set of possible states

I like solving Rubik’s cubes. I have one within 20 feet of myself at all times (a bit of an exaggeration, but pretty close to the truth). Here’s a picture of me with Erno Rubik, the inventor of the cube! He’s a very nice person. Anyways, I’ve been solving for years, and I finally asked