Theater group puts on original play – The Weston Town Crier

Theater group puts on original play – The Weston Town Crier

March 1 & 2. $5. Some time.

This is pretty exciting. A high-school play composed in response to an article involving my darling MIRROR NEURONS. The play is called “The Outlier Effect” and seems to involve imitative behavior and an imposed form of autism. What I find interesting is that the subject they’ve chosen to work with also seems to center (from what I’ve read so far) around the expulsion of the one who is no longer part of the crowd (an obvious connection between MIRROR NEURONS and the work of RENE GIRARD). The question of resistance to authority pops up but how political they want to be and how well done has yet to be seen.

Being that the play is being held in Weston, MA I see no reason not to go and with as many Girardians as I can. There might be something there worth capitalizing on. If so I want to be front and center.

 

Gadget reviews: cell phones, computer accessories, DVD and digital cameras, handhelds, home theater and portable audio. » Pretec i-Disk BulletProof flash drive

Gadget reviews: cell phones, computer accessories, DVD and digital cameras, handhelds, home theater and portable audio. » Pretec i-Disk BulletProof flash drive

I want one.

 

My IP address and location? Show my ip address and locate the ip

My IP address and location? Show my ip address and locate the ip

Holy junk! This thing told me my computer was down one block and across the street… that was amazing! A lot closer than I’ve ever seen. Chris, if you don’t already have this, you should!

 

Charlotte Observer | 11/13/2006 | Principals sprint with 3-minute class checks

Charlotte Observer | 11/13/2006 | Principals sprint with 3-minute class checks

Interesting practical use of ideas first presented to me by Macolm Gladwell’s “Blink“. I’m glad to see that the use isn’t an all out extreme version of what I read about, but something more moderate and useful.

 

CSIRO develops an air guitar shirt – smh.com.au – The Sydney Morning Herald

CSIRO develops an air guitar shirt – smh.com.au – The Sydney Morning Herald

While the practical value to me is limited, that they can do this to some effective degree is amazing and makes me wonder what else we could make using the same technique… I’m thinking in line with vehicles responding not to a steering wheel but to some kind of body motion.

 

Communist Robot – Where do you stand on the future?

Communist Robot – Where do you stand on the future?

Simply amazing.

 

Meeting Your Expectations | Cosmic Variance

Meeting Your Expectations | Cosmic Variance

The results of this study won’t surprise many people. The idea of people living up to expectations whether they be good or bad isn’t very new. But it did get me thinking about this upcoming job I might have. I know that most of what I do will be trying to impart skills into students at various levels. However, how much of an impact can expectations and the perception of expectations influence that transfer of aptitude?

What I’m wondering is how to best use this information to provide a positive expectation environment without inducing a false sense of self-confidence. I’ll be thinking about this for a while I’m sure.

 

Wired News: It’s Invisible – Almost

Wired News: It’s Invisible – Almost
And a similar project that has amazing videos

This kind of work is amazing, and to see it in a real-life application like a jacket is just incredible. I want one.

 

The complete work of Charles Darwin

I haven’t looked through it, but even if it isn’t as complete as they say, it’s still pretty impressive. The project is to collect in pdf and audio (so far as I know) everything by Darwin.

The complete work of Charles Darwin

 

Paul Laffoley and Phillip Pullman

A new discovery via a friend of a friend. Ollie – a party friend of Aaron’s – exposed the existence of a incredibly interesting artist who works for the Boston Museum of Science. As far as I know, Paul Laffoley’s workshop is somewhere within the MoS offices. Furthermore, Ollie’s plans on visiting Laffoley now have me included. I am terribly interested in Laffoley’s work for reasons difficult to fully explain but I will try to get some pictures up so you have an idea. They are full of layered symbols both in word and sign. They are embroidered with hypercubes and mobius strips and probably any number of mathematically interesting figures.

Another part of my interest in Laffoley is that Ollie first mentioned only the title of one of his works. The Metatron. This immediately leapt out at me because Metatron is also the name of the angel in Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy book “The Amber Spyglass” who is the right hand of the Authority (ie god, but it’s more complicated than that). I further find out that Metatron is supposedly the angel of death, the “active” angel of god, and the being that lead the Isrealites out of Egypt found in the book of Exodus. This is all according to Hebrew mythology, Cabbalah I believe. I’ll have to look that up again.

So my next question would be: What do Phillip Pullman and Paul Laffoley have in common (if anything of course), and how have their influences shaped what they put out as art?