The Post-American World
I finally got around to reading Fareed Zakaria’s The Post-American World. I had read the reviews when it first came out and seen him on The Daily Show a few times, but the book...
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Will Wright & E O Wilson
NPR has an occasional series called Open Mic where they have a guest interview somebody they find interesting, This morning it featured two of our favorite people. The interviewer was the game designer Will...
Button Fade
We made a new Arduino project today. It’s a code to make a light on the Arduino fade on and off by pressing a button. Here’s the circuit diagram. This is the code. int...
Grandpa’s Todo List
My parents were visiting this summer to get out of the Florida summer heat. My father isn’t very good at sitting still. He’s much happier if you give him a list of things to...
Haddock with Green Garlic Sauce
This week we got two whole haddocks from the CSF. Last night we had fillets with Tomato, Caper and Olive vinaigrette, and tonight I decided to bake the other haddock whole. Pat the fish...
When a Good Idea Works
The latest issue of Technology Review has a nice article by John Maeda about the early history of Processing. Fry and Reas were students of Maeda’s at the Media Lab, and Processing was heavily...
25 August 1609
On this day 400 years ago, Galileo demonstrated his telescope in Venice. When we were in Italy last year, we visited the Museo di Storia della Scienza in Florence. They have a number of...
Charbucks and the iPhone
Ken Perlin has an interesting theory about why Starbucks coffee tastes the way it does and how that relates to the sensitivity of the iPhone’s touch pad. Why is it that the quality of...
Paleodictyon Nodosum
There’s an interesting article in the NYTimes about the search for the creature that leaves this pattern on the bottom of the ocean. This pattern was first seen in ancient rocks and were believed...
