Hannah Slomp got to visit the roasting plant of local coffee gurus Phil & Sebastian:
Since Phil is an engineer, he produced a computer application that tracks the beans as they roast. The application also measures the humidity and the temperature inside the roaster. There was quite the science behind roasting the bean perfectly.
Joe Palca for NPR:
[Principal investigator John] Grotzinger says they recently put a soil sample in SAM, and the analysis shows something earthshaking. “This data is gonna be one for the history books. It’s looking really good,” he says.
I bet they found John McAfee’s hiding place on Mars.
AnandTech‘s hardware reviews are as thorough as John Siracusa’s reviews of OS X. This one’s long, but very worth it, especially for the numbers-heavy display analysis.