Synchronous Objects
Go check out this interesting dance piece. It’s a performance of William Forsythe’s One Flat Thing, reproduced with visual annotations added using a graphics package called Field. It was done by Norah Zuniga Shaw.
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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...
DayJams (week 3)
This is the diagram for a five string bass I have plans for if I ever end up with the time and money available to create it. The fingerboard would be made from a...
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,...
