Tom Elwood - what I read on the internet.
Thanks for commenting! Here are some articles that caught my eye - from the New York Times, Consumer Reports, Popular Science etc. Tom Elwood
Friday, June 1, 2012
Phadroid, William Close and The Earth Harp - New Years 2012 at Momai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ-hukZW8Sk&feature=youtube_gdata_player
-Tom.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Lose yourself in your work.
flow, the notion developed by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced "me-high chick-sent-me-high"—perhaps the most fun name to say, ever). This Hungarian-American psychologist holds that there is a very satisfying state of mind that occurs when one is totally absorbed by an action. ... One might experience flow while painting a complex landscape or painting the front porch...
Its commonness is why we have so many phrases for this pleasant state of existence: being in the zone, losing ourselves in our work, being on the ball, in the groove.
http://m.popsci.com/science/article/2012-05/guess-whats-cooking-garage?page=1
Doug's reading list of classics
Some of you have asked me for a list of books that would be appropriate for 7th and 8th Grade English Literature students (and for parents who might wish to reacquaint themselves with the classics). The canon is so rich and diverse that this just scratches the surface, but it's a start:
Emily Bronte—"Wuthering Heights"; Alexander Pope—"The Odyssey"; Jonathan Swift---"Gulliver's Travels"; Charles Dickens---"Oliver Twist" or "Bleak House";
Isak Dinesen---"Out of Africa"; Thoreau---"Walden";
E.M. Forster---"A Passage To India"; Rudyard Kipling---"Captains Courageous";
Virginia Woolf---"To the Lighthouse"; Anthony Trollope---"Barchester Towers";
Willa Cather---"O Pioneers!" or "My Antonia";
William M. Thackeray---"Vanity Fair"; George Eliot---"Middlemarch";
George Orwell---"Animal Farm" or "1984";
Ernest Hemingway---short story collections, "In Our Time" or "Men Without Women", or "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" or "A Moveable Feast" or "The Sun Also Rises" or "A Farewell To Arms";
Mark Twain---"Huck Finn";
Jane Austen---"Pride and Prejudice"; T.H. White---"The Sword in the Stone"; Herman Melville---"Typee";
Joseph Conrad---"Heart of Darkness"; Oscar Wilde---"The Importance of Being Earnest" or "The Picture of Dorian Grey";
John Steinbeck---"The Red Pony" or "Of Mice and Men";
Walt Whitman---"Leaves of Grass"; Robert L. Stevenson---"The Strange Tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" or "Treasure Island";
William Shakespeare---"The Sonnets" or "Romeo and Juliet" or "Macbeth" or "Julius Caesar";
Theodore Dreiser----"An American Tragedy";
P.G. Wodehouse---"My Man Jeeves"; H.G. Wells---"The Time Machine"; Evelyn Waugh---"A Handful of Dust";
A selection from the poems of Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickinson, Larkin, Keats, Plath, T.S. Eliot, Hardy, Frost, Burns, Emerson, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, Blake.
Well, that's a beginning. Happy reading and regards, Doug
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Ambitious amateurs
From an article 'Garage Biology' about a new breed of garage tinkerer that is making scientific advances in their garage. "They've started to form 'synbio' clubs in the way radio enthusiasts did in the early 1900's, or computer programmers did in the 1970's or robotics amateurs in the '00's."
http://m.popsci.com/science/article/2012-05/guess-whats-cooking-garage
-Tom.
Friday, May 25, 2012
How to grow trees in the desert.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRF2bUBPA90&feature=youtube_gdata_player
-Tom.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Foldit: Biology for gamers - by Nature Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axN0xdhznhY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
-Tom.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Can Treating Your Life As a Game Make You a Better Person? | Popular Science
http://m.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-01/can-treating-your-life-game-make-you-better-person
-Tom.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Friday, April 13, 2012
Monday, April 9, 2012
Marketing tricks on supermarkets
...beware of 'bumpouts' - displays and shelves that jut out...
Shoppers who proceeded round the store clockwise spent $2 less than shoppers who went the usual counterclockwise.
Consumer Reports May '12 p. 20
-Tom.
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Monday, March 26, 2012
Swimming On The Hot Side | Popular Science
-Tom.
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Sorbet vs. sherbert or sherbet
-Tom.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Ouch! Movie Theater Food = more than a day's food!
Consumer Reports Mar 2012 p. 10
-Tom.
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