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A Perfect Lunch Stop: Brasserie Woods in Nachtegalenpark near hockey club Olympia
Some time ago we had a bit 2 hours over lunch between 2 hockey games at hockey club Olympia in Antwerp and the cafetaria didn’t fit our needs. We found Brasserie Woods within walking distance in the Nachtegalenpark park. The brasserie is located right at the park entrance and benefits from the green surroundings to add a bit of cachet. It was chilly but we were lucky that it was a sunny afternoon so although we sat inside we could still enjoy the sun due to the interior of the brasserie which resembles a bit a greenhouse style with lots…
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Charles Lauritsen on Oppenheimer
‘This man was unbelievable. He always gave you the answer before you had time to formulate the question.‘― Charles Lauritsen
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Understanding the Futility of Nuclear Conflicts
‘A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.‘― Ronald Reagan
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Return of the Stone Age
‘The Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science.‘― Winston Churchill
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Taste Authentic Belgian Cuisine at Le Zinneke
A while ago I went for dinner in Le Zinneke in Schaarbeek again. This is an old style traditional Belgian restaurant with a one of a kind interior. Nothing fancy but authentic and definitely unique. Very friendly staff and prices are good, eating here will not break your bank account. They serve traditional dishes, Brussels classics they call them and during the mussels season they have an enormous choice of mussels preparation styles, like for example with garlic, white wine, curry and so on. I read somewhere they have 65 different options on their menu. I had mussels and they…
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Einstein. His Life and Universe, Walter Isaacson (ISBN 9780743264747, Simon & Schuster)
A ‘new’ biography of Einstein by Walter Isaacson came out in 2007. The first biography I read from Isaacson was the one of Steve Jobs which actually came out later, in 2011. I enjoyed the Steve Jobs biography and by looking for other books by Isaacson I came across this Einstein biography. I bought the book but then put it on the shelf because I was reading something else as usual. I had read the ‘authoritative’ biography Subtle is the Lord by Abraham Pais a long time ago the one and after that didn’t feel like I was missing something…
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Schrödinger’s kittens and the search for reality, John Gribbin (ISBN 9781857994025, Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
After reading In Search of Schrödinger’s cat by John Gribbin I decided to also read this sequel not really knowing what to expect. His first book is a more or less traditional explanation of quantum mechanics and its bizarre description of reality. Ever since its conception physicists and philosophers have been struggling with the interpretation of quantum mechanics. This has been so difficult that the physicist community in general stopped trying to understand quantum mechanics at a fundamental level and limited itself to using quantum mechanics to calculate and predict. The first book came out in 1984 and Schrödinger’s kittens…
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Unexpected Fun: Solving Sudoku Killer in Winter
Recently I had trouble to keep up the weekly running frequency due to the cold. Last 2 weeks temperatures dropped close to freezing point and on top of that it started snowing for almost a week. Luckily I still had some days off so I didn’t have to endure snow triggered traffic jams. Luckily our paper had a puzzle special page with something they called the Sudoku Killer. This is a normal Sudoku but a lot fewer numbers pre filled and instead grouped squares for which the total sum of the numbers to fill is given. As can be seen…
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