Feeding The Machine 2: Optimum Performance (1)
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Here is part 2 of the 3 part series. Sorry for the spotty posting. Weddings, moving the gym and a death in the family have kept us BUSY. Feeding the Machine 2: Optimum Performance Time! There are a lot of acronyms, obscure lingo and odd terminology in CrossFit. KTE, HSPU, pistols, thrusters…burpees, snatch, jerk. Is it porn? An armed militia movement? Nothing so exciting, just constantly varied, functional movements, performed at high intensity. Well, that’s ...
Notes From Day One (1)
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I’ll answer my “How-Was-It” questions from last year later. This time ’round, I want that to be a review of the entire first week instead of just the first day. At first glance, I’m doing pretty well. I’d love to hear how it went for you. Copies of all my handouts from today are at the bottom of this post. Speech Awesome. I stumbled on the idea of splitting my Plane Trouble exercise across two ...
Intermittent Fasting Roundtable: The Experts Talk about IF for Fat Loss, Muscle and Health. (2)
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photo by ChrisB When I personally stumbled across the research and lifestyle of Intermittent Fasting (IF for short) many years ago, it just all made sense to me. In my past years I had been sold on needing protein every 3 hours or you would waste away. I was told everywhere that the only way to lose fat was to eat 6x a day (sure it can work, but only because of insulin control and ...
Feltron Post-Mortem (1)
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a/k/a My Qualified Disaster a/k/a The Trouble With Tech previously on dy/dan We started with four variables (text messages, beers per day, etc.) which we tracked for 2.5 months in quad-ruled notebooks attempting to transform the quotidian details of our lives into extraordinary infodesigns a lá Nicholas Felton. This was a departure for me. A tech-driven, student-led, design-infused mathematical project. Things went wrong. This is a comprehensive autopsy of our Feltron Project. I post it ...
Improving Highschool Science Education (14)
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As I read this fascinating NYTimes piece on a Florida teacher covering evolution, I was reminded of an interesting email exchange I had recently with Kevin Padian, a UC Berkeley professor in the Dept of Integrative Biology, and curator of the UC Museum of Paleontology. He was at Science Foo Camp, and afterward wrote in email: My area is evolution, the most misunderstood concept in all of science. Two websites that help the public with ...
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Forrest said:
interesting - hope they can make some good headway...
Holy iPhone Screen Shots (1)
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Holy iPhone Screen Shots by cogdogblog posted 25 Aug ‘08, 11.56pm MDT PST on flickr Enough n00b me trying to capture iPhone screens via a photo from my camera. Via comment by Guy K just press Power and Home button together: blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/08/the-art-of-ipho.html Compare to flickr.com/photos/cogdog/2798321033/ Emailed as if magic from my iPhone Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite
Nevermore (3)
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My alarm clock has a "Sound Machine" built into it. Not of the Miami variety (though rising to "Conga" every morning would be AWESOME), but the sort that will play soothing sounds to help you sleep: white noise, ocean waves, chirruping crickets, and the like. One of the options is "heartbeat", and sometimes when Squiggle is monkeying around the with clock, pressing the buttons and listening to all the possible selections, he will leave it ...
Your Camera Phone is a Document Scanner with Qipit (1)
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Almost be sheer accident I just came across Qipit a service that allows you to take photos of sketches or whiteboards with your camera phone, email it to their site, and then have it available as a PDF or even be able to fax it. Chances are, you carry a cell phone with you everywhere you go. And more than likely, that cell phone has a camera. Qipit turns this handy device into a portable ...
Lightmark, Amazing Photos by Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke (9)
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Talk about getting your photo’s lighting right! Lightmark is a fantastic series of playful photographs by Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke. The duo took long exposures of lights to create some amazing effects. This one above, humbly titled No. 24, was done in Diasec, Harz, Germany. Link - via Militant Platypus
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rsgalloway said:
one of my long exposure shots of the night sky in tahoe: http://flickr.com/photos/rsgalloway/2730669511/
Day One (1)
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Syllabus? On Day One!? Are you nuts?? Seriously, consider ditching that dry bit of talk. Push it off as much as you possibly can. The students only need to know certain things right now and chances are that info isn’t on your syllabus. It can wait until later. For now, you have a stage to set and what you do today will impact the rest of the school year. Not irreversibly, but this is important ...
Fictional Sports Invade the Real World (13)
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Authors love to make up games for their fictional worlds — but these games are typically unplayable in the real world. Quidditch served as the backdrop for plenty of dramatic action in the Harry Potter books, but it involves flying broomsticks and magic balls. Calvinball provided philosophical fodder in Calvin and Hobbes, but its ever-shifting ruleset makes real-world play confusing at best. But guess what? We’ve tracked down some bizarre examples of fictional sports performed ...
Mickey Mouse bridges the culture war when teaching evolution to evangelical students (19)
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David Campbell managed to slip evolution into the high-school science curriculum in the conservative Florida town where he teaches -- by using images of Mickey Mouse through the years to illustrate the principle: On the projector, Campbell placed slides of the cartoon icon: one at his skinny genesis in 1928, one from his 1940 turn as the impish "Sorcerer's Apprentice," and one of the rounded, ingratiating charmer of Mouse Club fame. "How," he asked his ...
Kids can't "go out and play" anymore (79)
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This LA Times story (by Rosa Brooks) about the erosion of free, unstructured outdoor play and movement for kids really hits the nail on the head: little kids are just not allowed to "go outside and play" and we treat big kids who do as potential threats to be moved along as quickly as possible: But today, for most middle-class American children, "going out to play" has gone the way of the dodo, the typewriter ...
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Jeremy Jarratt said:
LAT article articulates how i feel about kids and outdoor physical activity. Also, what's a typewriter?
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Ahmaud Templeton said:
If I do get married and have kids, they will definitely be going outside to play, and frankly, I plan on joining them!
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seanness said:
I've been noticing this for years. Parents coddle way too much here in the US. Exploration and independence was a big part of my childhood. I remember walking 7 miles to my grandmothers house when I was 10 (with my brother), along a busy road (we thought it was at the time) and the only harm was that we learned it was better to ride our bikes there. Parents...let your kids out of the backyard!
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SusanVillasLewis said:
Wow. And here I have been jealous of the "structured" activities that kids get to do these days. We didn't have those when I was a kid. I had to make up my own fun playing in the yard with my siblings. Guess I did have it better not getting to do soccer or karate or dance.
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isol8d said:
yeah, I don't let my kids wander outside yet.
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Alex said:
I loved my countless hours outside. Stinks to be a kid now, I guess.
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William said:
From the essay, "They braved ... the rusty nails just waiting to be stepped on ..."I've stepped on a rusty nail. It's not fun. I was between 2 and 5, and stepped on the nail in my dad's study upstairs at the Providence Forge Presbyterian Church -- which is not exactly like the junkyard in /Stand By Me/.I also fell out of a "car bed" and cracked my head on the runners for the Volvo's front seat. Ironically, my parents had traded the VW Beetle for the Volvo because the Volvo was safer. Last I checked, there was no permanent damage from either injury.
