Mysterious. View from my bedroom window. Yup.
Posts
I find this more amusing than my kids do
7 years ago
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Dancing and fun with Jane including cognitive flexibility
Jane and I are sitting in her lovely house in North Vancouver BC. We have yakked all morning, meaning to go and sew with some fabric I brought along. Then we got sidetracked into watching videos about dance which we both adore, and talking about our children and how the wee ones develop and grow up, and then into neuroscience and cognition. It's been a busy brain morning for me. Now it's time for some creativity! Anna Maria Horner
Cognitive Flexibility
Cognitive Flexibility
| AMH Little Folks.jpg 221K View Download |
Dancing and fun with Jane including cognitive flexibility
Jane and I are sitting in her lovely house in North Vancouver BC. We have yakked all morning, meaning to go and sew with some fabric I brought along. Then we got sidetracked into watching videos about dance which we both adore, and talking about our children and how the wee ones develop and grow up, and then into neuroscience and cognition. It's been a busy brain morning for me. Now it's time for some creativity! Anna Maria Horner
Cognitive Flexibility
Cognitive Flexibility
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Dancing and fun with Jane including cognitive flexibility
Jane and I are sitting in her lovely house in North Vancouver BC. We have yakked all morning, meaning to go and sew with some fabric I brought along. Then we got sidetracked into watching videos about dance which we both adore, and talking about our children and how the wee ones develop and grow up, and then into neuroscience and cognition. It's been a busy brain morning for me. Now it's time for some creativity!
Anna Maria HornerCognitive Flexibility
Galloping Gertie!
I took a day trip to Gig Harbor...and drive across the famous NEW Tacoma Narrows bridge. Fortunately no galloping occurred that day. Ali was the one who reminded me of this stunning collapse. Courtesy of Nova Online:http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/meetsusp.html"At the time it opened for traffic in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the third longest suspension bridge in the world. It was promptly nicknamed "Galloping Gertie," due to its behavior in wind. Not only did the deck sway sideways, but vertical undulations also appeared in quite moderate winds. Drivers of cars reported that vehicles ahead of them would completely disappear and reappear from view several times as they crossed the bridge. Attempts were made to stabilize the structure with cables and hydraulic buffers, but they were unsuccessful. On November 7, 1940, only four months after it opened, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a wind of 42 mph—even though the structure was designed to withstand winds of up to 120 mph.
The failure came as a severe shock to the engineering community. Why did a great span, more than half a mile in length and weighing tens of thousands of tons, spring to life in a relatively light wind? And how did slow, steady, and comparatively harmless motions suddenly become transformed into a catastrophic force? To answer these questions engineers began applying the science of aerodynamics to bridge designs. Technical experts still disagree on the exact cause of the bridge's destruction, but most agree the collapse had something to do with a complex phenomenon called resonance: the same force that can cause a soprano's voice to shatter a glass. Today, wind tunnel testing of bridge designs is mandatory. As for the Tacoma Narrows bridge, reconstruction began in 1949. The new bridge is wider, has deep stiffening trusses under the roadway and even sports a slender gap down the middle—all to dampen the effect of the wind."
 |
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Home of the Pink Champagne Cake!
Sounds heavenly, right? Enticing? But no.I asked to taste the icing and it was dire. High notes of Crisco, with a finishing of red food coloring. Meh.Vastly disappointing.I took photos and moved on. The signage and the chair (Van Gogh, anyone?) almost made up for it. Speaking of Van Gogh, I remember back in the 60's when Pops was working at the Menninger Foundation he brought home a guest for dinner. His name was Theodore Van Gogh, the great grandson of Vincent. Or great grand nephew? i don't remember. But he signed my autograph stuffed animal... it was a penguin. This was all the rage in the late 60's - you had a stuffed animal that you had people sign. i don't know what happened to it, but the memory is there. Other famous people that Pops encountered? Margaret Mead. Margaret Mead Aldous Huxley. (He regularly had lunch with AH in the Menninger cafeteria). Konrad Lorenz - the god of ethnobiology (geese imprinting - remember? I adored his writing. Anna Freud, Sigmund's daughter. And Truman Capote and Harper Lee. They showed up on our doorstep in Topeka with a psychiatrist who was interested in introducing them to Pops and he turned them away. This was while Truman was researching "In Cold Blood." What a ballsy guy my father is! My father and mother had such an interesting and rich life. I am so grateful for all that they did for us. All that they introduced us to. The education I received from my father about how to read and handle beautiful books: "Wash your hands first. Make sure you turn the pages from the top right to the top left." Thank you, Pops!
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Dancing at the movies...
Day-yum. In addition to some mighty fine dancing, the editing on this is TIGHT.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
