http://thundersnow.us Boom. Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:35:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tuesday's Boston Globe has a nifty article about what we know (and don't know!) about cortical folding - how all those wrinkles on the surface of the brain develop. Turns out that fetuses in the first and second trimesters have basically smooth brains; all the folding happens late in neonatal ... http://thundersnow.us/2009/08-05/where-do-sulci-and-gyri-come-from/ Trailer for Fantastic Mr. Fox. Includes "Based on the book by the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Seriously? Does nobody know who Roald Dahl is? Seriously? I'm worried. http://thundersnow.us/2009/07-31/126/ Notes for future reference, as this was a rather ad-libbed recipe. ~1 lbchicken, sliced thinly 2 t cornstarch 1 Tsoy sauce 1/2 T zest from 2 oranges (note that it is much easier to zest the oranges before juicing than the other way around) 1 T + 1/4 C juice ... http://thundersnow.us/2009/07-26/orange-chicken-stirfry/ NASA has recently turned up a pile of meticulous notebooks kept by Werner von Braun during the fifties and sixties Space Race projects. They're seeking ideas from the public about how best to digitize and catalog them. http://thundersnow.us/2009/06-29/calling-all-science-andor-librarian-geeks/ From a comment here When I have students who suggest that they'll never use the basic algebra I teach them, I first ask them a question: when will they use the material they learned in biology in their lives? When will they use what they learned in their history class in ... http://thundersnow.us/2009/06-26/on-learning-more-math-than-it-first-appears-you-need/ Even with the delayed onset of true summer weather, I've been wanting to be outdoors and doing stuff more than indoors and doing stuff. This has been good for the yard work, but less good for the work work. Yard work: The massive bittersweet invasion is being slowly pushed ... http://thundersnow.us/2009/06-09/122/ http://thundersnow.us/2008/12-14/christmas-peek/ Don Tapscott has a career based in thinking about how the technology of the modern net is going to have broad effects on society. Most of his work has been discussing how the business landscape is changed by these tools - massive collaboration, greater transparency, and such will (he argues) ... http://thundersnow.us/2008/12-03/120/ Some photos (all yoinked from Dan) and notes. I was Events Head for this con, which was a new and interesting piece of responsibility. Usually I work tech, which is mostly a question of showing up and doing as I'm told. I like this more responsibility thing, I think. (As ... http://thundersnow.us/2008/08-31/pi-con-only-slightly-lagged/ Wanderlust shows the routes of twenty-three historic journeys, with info and photos for each. I'd love to see more depth for each, but nifty nonetheless (via What I Learned Today). http://thundersnow.us/2008/08-12/wanderlust/