A little challenge I’ve given myself over the past couple days is trying to solve a cryptic crossword puzzle. What is a cryptic crossword puzzle? It is a type of crossword puzzle where each clue is a puzzle in itself. The real challenge of cryptics is actually figuring out what the question is asking you. Once you do this the answer becomes very quickly apparent.
Its been a fair challenge to figure out but I thought I would share with you what I’ve learned so far.

1. Teaching Maths in 1970
A logger sells a truckload of timber for £100.
His cost of production is 4/5 of the price.
What is his profit?

I found this and it is just too good.
Who created a model of the universe as a set of nested spheres?
Answer.

I’m going to try something a little different in the next couple weeks. I’ll be posting some of my favorite recipes and cooking techniques for you to try at home. I find I often don’t have all the ingredients to make meals out of a cookbook but desire something more than KD or frozen perogies. This is my attempt then to make cooking simple and to share how you can make quality meals from the odds and ends that accumulate in your fridge.
First up: Falling In Love With Asparagus.

For all those tech/video game geeks out there you probably already know about E3. For those of you who don’t, E3 stands for the Electronic Entertainment Expo. It is one of the premier release events for everything video games. Some of you might roll your eyes and scoff, but the video game industry is by far the fastest growing entertainment sector. Sales of video games are expected to double those of the music industry by 2011. In 2007 video games accounted for nearly $19 billion dollars in revenue. The incredibly …

Although we usually tend to discuss more cerebral issues on the Terry website, I think that its important to take a look at cool trends in areas other than academia. I stumbled across this video on You Tube today. It was the first mainstream contest of an underground sport called Free Running (or Parkour). If you aren’t already familiar with free running imagine athletes who turn everyday downtown and urban locations into a jungle gym. They find new ways to move around environments using all of their strength and imagination.
Red …

So I picked up a book at an airport more than a year ago and picked it up off my shelf today. I remembered how cool it was and wanted to share it with you guys today. The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten by Julian Baggini allows anyone to become an armchair philosopher. Here is the way it work: inside the cover lie 100 ‘thought experiments’ that you can do at home. These experiments challenge conventional thinking in regards to ethics, morality, freedom, religion, and almost any juicy topic …