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Author Archives: Conrad Halling
Achieving Mastery
In a massive and deeply thoughtful essay, Bosco Ho writes about how connecting deliberative practice, neural plasticity, individual strengths, and the “joyful connection of flow” into a loop can lead to achieving mastery over an activity. Highly recommended.
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Audio Versions of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy
Isaac Asimov’s classic Foundation Trilogy (later expanded to included several more books—prequels and sequels—and joined to his robot series), has been a favorite of mine since I was a teenager. Nicholas Whyte recently posted that an eight-hour version of the … Continue reading
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New England Bicycle Expo
This weekend the New England Bicycle Expo is taking place at the Arts at the Armory building in Somerville, Massachusetts. I visited with the Zipcar people, who were kind enough to give me a Zipcar T-shirt when they learned that … Continue reading
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What If Earth Had Rings Like Saturn’s?
YouTube video author T0R0YD (Roy Prol) envisions what the Earth would look like if it had rings like Saturn’s rings. This delightful video shows what the rings would look like from various cities at different latitudes. There are questions that the … Continue reading
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Animated Photos by Jamie Beck
Jamie Beck is a New York City photographer whose blog on tumbler.com, From Me to You, features a series of stunning animated photos. Each photo is actually an animated GIF, but you have never seen an animated GIF like Beck’s. … Continue reading
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When Will the Macintosh Become a True Malware Target?
In a post on Daring Fireball titled “Wolf!” John Gruber has collected predictions dating back to October, 2004, that any day now the Macintosh will become as big a target for malware as Windows. We’re still waiting….
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One Evolutionary Origin of Domesticated Rice
Yesterday on the Gene Expression blog, Razib Khan wrote an extensive summary of a paper by Molina et al., “Molecular evidence for a single evolutionary origin of domesticated rice.” Khan, an excellent science writer, provides useful background information into the … Continue reading
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