{"id":2290,"date":"2009-02-27T22:54:56","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T03:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2009-02-27T22:54:56","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T03:54:56","slug":"busy-weekend-talks-in-princeton-st-louis-and-toledo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/27\/busy-weekend-talks-in-princeton-st-louis-and-toledo\/","title":{"rendered":"Busy Weekend. Talks in Princeton, St. Louis and Toledo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of talks this weekend and lots of early morning flights. Just did a talk at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ias.edu\/\">Institute for Advanced Study<\/a> in Princeton (which is like a university with no students, and host to <a title=\"Albert Einstein\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Einstein\">Albert Einstein<\/a>, <a title=\"John von Neumann\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_von_Neumann\">John von Neumann<\/a>, <a title=\"Kurt G\u00c3\u00b6del\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurt_G%C3%B6del\">Kurt G\u00c3\u00b6del<\/a> and\u00c2\u00a0 <a title=\"J. Robert Oppenheimer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._Robert_Oppenheimer\">J. Robert Oppenheimer<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I spoke as part of the Cuisine &amp; Culture lecture series which is usually by culinary historians and anthropologists. About 75 people (which they said was a good showing). They had yummy duck spring rolls and dim summy things for the cocktail party.<\/p>\n<p>I saw my camp counselors, who I hadn&#8217;t seen in like 15 years or so: <a href=\"http:\/\/lapa.princeton.edu\/peopledetail.php?ID=601\">Noah Zatz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.uchicago.edu\/faculty\/faculty_cattelino.shtml\">Jessica Catellino<\/a>, now both professors and visiting scholars in Princeton (one at the Institute, one at the University).<\/p>\n<p>I also sat next to someone at dinner who said he&#8217;d been to a wedding where Bill Gates had served as &#8220;second usher.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of talks this weekend and lots of early morning flights. Just did a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (which is like a university with no students, and host to Albert Einstein, John von Neumann, Kurt G\u00c3\u00b6del and\u00c2\u00a0 J. Robert Oppenheimer) I spoke as part of the Cuisine &amp; Culture lecture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appearances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-AW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}