Author: Mike Garrity
Spore Internals
This is the sort of thing that usually goes in my work blog, but the kids are both big fans of Spore, so I’m going to post it here instead. Chris Hecker has written...
Math Midway
Glen Whitney is trying to create a museum of mathematics. There have been articles about the project recently in the New Yorker, Gelf magazine, and the Daily News. His website for the project is...
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...
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...
