Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Learning. Show all posts

Saturday, August 06, 2011

Magic Trick: The Secret of Rope Tying

The Secret of Rope Tying - Magic Tricks

 

Since the days of the Davenport Brothers many conjurers have exhibited rope tying. To shake off the most intricate of these ties is never very difficult, for it is only a matter of bringing a strain on the rope until one hand is free—which is soon done—and then the rest is plain sailing. But it is very different where one allows oneself to be tied tightly with rope, then frees oneself so as to perform seemingly impossible "stunts," and afterward is found tied up as at first. That is what Mr. Kellar used to do. How he did it he never told us, and yet

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Can a Playground Be Too Safe?

When seesaws and tall slides and other perils were disappearing from New York’s playgrounds, Henry Stern drew a line in the sandbox. As the city’s parks commissioner in the 1990s, he issued an edict concerning the 10-foot-high jungle gym near his childhood home in northern Manhattan.

Can a Playground Be Too Safe? - NYTimes.com

 

 

Wednesday, July 06, 2011

Making Beer

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How to Brew - By John Palmer - Brewing Your First All-Grain Beer

Brewing Your First All-Grain Beer

Welcome to the third section of How To Brew Your First Beer. Here is where we remove the training wheels and do everything from scratch. All of the world's classic beers are produced using malted grain and the methods which I am now going to teach you. The all-grain brewing method allows you the most flexibility in designing and producing an individual wort. Once you have mastered these basic techniques, you will be able to walk into any beer store or pub, select any beer (with the possible exception of the Belgian Lambics), and say with confidence, "I can brew this." The fundamental techniques and related science will be explained in the following chapters.

 

Monday, June 27, 2011

A Better Brew - Dogfish breweries

Sam Calagione at Dogfish breweries.
Elephants, like many of us, enjoy a good malted beverage when they can get it. At least twice in the past ten years, herds in India have stumbled upon barrels of rice beer, drained them with their trunks, and gone on drunken rampages. (The first time, they trampled four villagers; the second time they uprooted a pylon and electrocuted themselves.) Howler monkeys, too, have a taste for things fermented. In Panama, they’ve been seen consuming overripe palm fruit at the rate of ten stiff drinks in twenty minutes. Even flies have a nose for alcohol. They home in on its scent to lay their eggs in ripening fruit, insuring their larvae a pleasant buzz. Fruit-fly brains, much like ours, are wired for inebriation.

Sam Calagione, Dogfish Head, and extreme beer : The New Yorker

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Vocal Cords in Action - Bit Freaky

Gain Staging

In a perfect world, every device in your studio racks would integrate seamlessly with its neighbors, your levels would always be hot without a hint of distortion, and routing signals would be like driving down a smooth road on a sunny day.

Gain Staging 1