Archive for the ‘Other’ Category
Psychomotor epilepsy
Writing from both a scientific and personal perspective, I’ve posted on my personal blog an essay about my mother’s struggle with psychomotor (temporal lobe) epilepsy:
Psychomotor Epilepsy: When the Lights Are On But No One Is Home
What If Everybody In Canada Flushed At Once?
Edmonton water usage during Olympic hockey final
Here is a wonderful graph of water usage versus the progress of a gold medal hockey game. The correlation of period breaks to usage peaks is positively elegant. The privacy implication (here, on all the bladders in Edmonton) was flagged in RISKS 25:96 (13 March 2010), also mentioning a related squib concerning mining information from smart electric meters. Anyway, you can see why they say all beer is recycled.
When life gives you snow, make snow candles
Son Julian and I just now built a prototype snow candle from an idea mentioned in a cute book called “101 Secrets a Good Dad Knows” (uh oh — I know about three) that Whitney gave me years ago:
Andrew's Science Log 