any of you real biology teachers out there can check our work, but it looks pretty good to me... :)
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Ken Burcham
Saturday, October 23, 2010
armen kleine crawfish
not sure why boys feel the need to impale the poor creature and set her head on a lance... probably some medeival thing. although, truth be told, it was the girls that totally obliterated their specimen into tiny bits.
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Ken Burcham
crawfish dissection!
day 2 of our biology dissection adventure. more complex systems than the ol earthworm esp the mouthpieces.
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Ken Burcham
Friday, October 22, 2010
What art can do
This is amazing: http://www.swiss-miss.com/2010/10/2011-ted-prize-winner.html
"JR is an anonymous photographer and artist and the 2011 TED Prize winner. In his work, JR embeds into neighborhoods, favelas and villages around the world, photographing the people who live there and learning their stories — and then pasting his striking images onto massive local canvases: buildings, buses, roads and bridges. His latest global art project is called “Women Are Heroes.”
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Biology class: Dissecting earth worms
Here's our first class of actual dissection. I spent about an hour reading up on worms and their anatomy... it was so fun! I shoulda been a teacher. :)
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
US Physics Professor takes APS to task on Global Warming
Personally, I've long held grave reservations about the "science" behind what seems to be a politico-economic motivated overabundance of enthusiasm about global warming. When someone like Harold Lewis resigns from the APS in disgust (and with such devastating critique) you have to hope people would be unable to blindly accept the party line without at least some critical thinking and hopefully investigation.
exerpts:
US physics professor: 'Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life'
"...How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society."
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Pattern your business like this
...for many goods and services, new business frameworks are emerging: federations of enterprises—from a variety of sectors—that share collaborative values and goals are increasingly capable of distributing valued assets directly to individuals, enabling them to determine exactly what they will consume, as well as when and how.
In other words: mashups aren't just about software...
from:
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
ReminderTxt.com via email (beta)
Now you can try out ReminderTxt.com via email. Send an email to "post@remindertxt.com" to get started.
Make the subject of your email message something like this:
to: post@remindertxt.com
subject: (today 5pm) Don't forget to stop at the grocery store on the way home!
If remindertxt.com doesn't know you, it'll send you a reply asking for your cell number.
Give it a try! Here are some other ideas for what you can say on the subject line:
(today 15min) remind me to call Michelle!
(today 10pm) Leave for your doctor's appointment
(20 min) go to the meeting!
(5:20pm) stop at the store on your way home
(tomorrow) Andre's birthday
(tomorrow 8am) Don't forget your briefcase today!
(4/1/10 10am) April fools! do a trick on someone.
(12/1/10 8am) plan christmas shopping
If it breaks, please send me feedback: ken@damrei.com
One thing: right now it'll default you to the Pacific timezone. :) email me your timezone and I'll set it for you.
ken.
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