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Are you unhappy with the way you look? Feel like you're carrying around some large extra dimensions? Want to compactify your manifold before the summer conference season gets here? If you answered "Yes!" to any of those questions, then you're ready for the String Theory Diet! Each rich, satisfying meals of eleven-dimensional noodles, and watch the pounds melt away! You'll lose weight so fast, your friends will think that gravity is leaking off your brane and affecting them more than you! You'll be your own walking hierarchy problem! You can lose as much as one Planck mass per Planck time (…
While I would like to be posting cool recipes (with pictures, even!), I'm currently on a somewhat restricted diet. This isn't a terribly serious post, and may slide over into "self-pitying," so I'll put the bulk of it behind the cut. About a year ago, I had some stomach problems that were eventually identified as acid reflux. It went away with a little medication, and some minor lifestyle changes (getting more exercise, not eating right before bed), and everything was fine for a long period. Then, having been advised that losing weight would get rid of the problem entirely (and suspecting…