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Why?
This month I started an online course in Artificial Intelligence. I also recently met, quite randomly at a bar, a gentleman much more technically minded than myself, who is also taking the course. He asked me recently: I’m curious, what’s … Continue reading
Posted in Kids, Life, Music Industry, The Dears, Writing
Tagged ai-class, artificial intelligence, learning, mathematics, robotics, science, science fiction, speculative fiction, university
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GeekMom: Focus on Maths
This morning I came up with the ultimate parenting strategy: instill the force (of nerdiness) within your child. I’ve always wanted to get my daughter into science and math, engaging the everychild’s wonderment of the world. Literally everything that surrounds … Continue reading
Posted in Kids, Life, TV
Tagged david tennant, dr. who, education, frenemies, GeekMom, Kids, kindergarten, learning, math, mathematics, maths, nerds, parenting, public school, science, tom baker
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Were Our Lives More Science-y in the 80′s?
I was thinking today about science, and how curious I was about things when I was a kid. I always wanted to mix the baking soda and vinegar together when no one was watching (just little bits at a time). … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Kids, Life, TV
Tagged 80's, beakman's world, Bill Nye, david suzuki, dr. who, education, eighties, geeks, growing up, mainstream, movies, nerds, nova, Ontario Science Centre, sci fi, science, Science City, the nature of things
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Science of Music vs. Martin Amis
During a moment spent not freaking out about Facebook removing my civil e-liberties, or analyzing the weird dreams I had last night about ordering an Americano coffee in NYC, I read a compelling book review in the Economist. The last … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Music Industry
Tagged book review, Books, dreams, economist, facebook, martin amis, money, music, music instinct, paranoia, philip ball, science, the economist, the pregnant widow
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SCIENCE!
2010 might more approproately be described as the year for Science. Presently, we are all waiting with bated breath for the Apple tablet announcement, right? We can only hope that that shit will be useful. At least that’s what I … Continue reading
Posted in Kids, Life, TV, Writing
Tagged Battlestar Galactica, conspiracy theory, education, school, sci fi, science, sebastien grainger, skepticism, star trek, star wars, the future, the venus project, zeitgeist
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Entering Nerdshire
A series of recent events caused me to realise that they should create a variation of the term “grupster” that incorporates the word “nerd”. While “negrupster” connotes a black grupster, and “grupsterd” sounds like it belongs in a toilet, I … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Kids, Life, The Dears
Tagged dune, grupster, nerds, nintendo DS, philip k. dick, professor layton, science, science center, valis, wired.com
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