C’mon, baby, light my fire

Friday is Bunsen Burner Day. It falls on the birthday of Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, who invented the device, which, to our knowledge, Albert Einstein, at right, didn’t use while cooking up the theories of relativity. “I sincerely doubt Einstein ever came near one,” says Barbara DiPalma of Caltech. The great man did spend time at the Pasadena campus in the early 1930s. To celebrate, we suggest a tour of Caltech followed by lunch at Chandler Dining Hall. There you’ll want to bypass the Salad Fusion and Bandwidth Bakery and order straight from the Bunsen Burner menu.