Chimp Grooming and Dunbar’s Number
Chimpanzees congregate in groups called troupes and exhibit a behavior called grooming. Two chimps sit next to each other and one of them picks dirt and bugs out of the other one’s hair. This...
Author: Mike Garrity
5 Dangerous Things for Kids
Gever Tulley (of Tinkering School) gave a talk at TED a couple of years ago about five dangerous things you should let your kids do. He doesn’t have his own kids, but we do,...
Rich Boys’ Toys
You’ve probably heard of Tom Perkins. He owns the world’s largest sailboat, the Maltese Falcon: Which can now apparently be yours at a bargain price. Now he’s got a new toy. Check out his...
Portrait of an Eagle
Have you seen this picture from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter? That little white dot casting the big shadow is the bottom half of the LEM that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed in 40...
Playing Hooky
Chris & I took the day off and went hiking up Great Blue Hill. It was a beautiful day. Sunny, about 88 degrees. The blueberries were ripe and we met a couple of deer...
It Was 40 Years Ago Today
Liftoff! This is the cover of the scrapbook I put together that summer when I was 10. I clipped articles out of the newspaper every morning and pasted them into this scrapbook. We were...
Coder Girl
We ran into this music video by Dale Chase on YouTube today. We all thought it was pretty good. It’s nice to see someone write hiphop about girls who do the sort of things...
The Big Picture: Apollo 11
The Big Picture is the Boston Globe’s photoblog. It’s really wonderful. They often have some great collections of photos. For example, today they have this collection of photos from the Apollo 11 mission.
