The Physics Of The Perfect Pizza

Yes, I said physics of the perfect pizza. Actual people have published an actual study about how to back the perfect margherita pizza. And yes, one of the study authors is Italian.

The secret to pizza, based on much sampling of pizza throughout Rome, is all in the way it's cooked. Also, I want to write a study that involves sampling a bunch of pizza. But anyway, the perfect margherita pizza can be baked in 2 minutes in a brick oven at 625 degrees Fahrenheit. If there are additional toppings, the pizza should be lifted off the bottom of the oven for 30 more seconds to prevent the bottom from burning.

Now, most people don't have a brick oven, and this is where the physics comes in. Using a complex thermodynamic equation, the scientists found that these conditions could be reasonably replicated in an electric oven. What you do is put your pizza on a metal tray, turn the oven to 450 degrees, and cook for 170 seconds, adding a bit more time if your toppings have a high water content.

One more thing, the study authors actually took the time to note that the perfect pizza basically requires you to wash it down with a pitcher of good beer. And that is a beautiful sentiment.

Trademarking Pi

Apparently not even mathematical constants are safe from copyright laws.  Someone got a trademark the symbol for pi followed by a period, which is silly to begin with, and is apparently very determined to keep their trademark.  Now, I don't really care about this shirt store that has a bunch of pi shirts, but this entire thing is just baffling.  How could the U.S government give a trademark for that?  Are we going to have issues using the pi symbol in mathematics now because it looks suspiciously similar to this guy's trademark? 

Honestly, this sounds like a made-up story, and it might be yet.  I hope it is.  But I trust that particular news source, and considering all the details, I don't think it is fake.  I think this is only going to apply to shirts, I don't think we'll have to find a new symbol for pi because it got trademarked, but really, that symbol should never have been trademarked in the first place, in any capacity.

On a completely unrelated note, this is 100 posts for this blog.  It may have taken 321 days to get there, but considering there was basically a four month gap of absolutely nothing, and that I've split my content into three different places, it isn't terrible.  Just thought I'd point that out.

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