"I think the biggest change is you can get a faster idea of what impact your publications or even your ideas are having," says computer scientist Paul Groth of Vrije University Amsterdam, who studies scientific metrics.
The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity", and ultimately "you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable".
Here are a few more fast ideas for savory, mostly whole-grain breakfasts (some of which come from readers of my blog, Bitten -- for these I say a general "thanks"): Breakfast risotto I can't think of a leftover risotto I wouldn't love at breakfast.
And I developed a healthy appreciation for the usefulness of the Internet during the world financial crisis of 1997-1998, wheconomicsics Web sites – including my own – became a key channel of communication among analysts; things were moving fast, ideas were rapidly changing, and traditional publication was just too slow.
When he repeated that slow-fast idea, the thrill diminished.
Really ripe cherries went into a bowlful of ricotta sweetened with kirsch and chunks of chocolate, a fast idea borrowed from the British food writer Sophie Grigson, who uses candied orange peel instead of fresh fruit.
But the fastest idea was one lifted from Jeremiah Tower, who inspired me to swathe mixed berries in sour cream, coat that in brown sugar and run the whole thing under the broiler until the top crackled like a crème brûlée.
He says that when the car goes fast, his ideas come fast, but, instead, the car crashes, leaving Edgar with a gash on his forehead and Mylène unable to speak (though she's in full possession of her faculties).
It's a way of reaching a lot of people with small, clever, fast-moving ideas.
And the pictures from the two most recent of these telescopes, BOOMERANG and MAXIMA, are fast consolidating ideas about the fundamental nature of the universe.What the images show, at first glance, is that the glow is amazingly uniform.
