Nathan Myhrvold is a scientist, inventor, nature and food
photographer, and author of the award-winning Modernist Cuisine
cookbooks. After completing a postdoc with Stephen Hawking and
serving as Microsoft’s first Chief Technology Officer, he founded
Intellectual Ventures, which has spun out more than 15 tech
startups. Myhrvold is inventor or coinventor of 899 patented
inventions to date. His book and other projects are at his website:
NathanMyhrvold.com
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About the Podcast
In each episode of the Cool Tools Show, Kevin Kelly and Mark Frauenfelder talk to a guest about some of his or her favorite uncommon and uncommonly good tools they think others should know about.