Here’s an interesting article about the complex diversity of America’s new First Family, on Michelle’s side as well as Barack’s. The article talks about how this sort of diversity reflects the real complexity of most people’s lives and histories - not the cookie-cutter stereotypes we’re so often fed as “normal”.
This is a timely and interesting link:
Is political orientation wired in the brain?
I wouldn’t go so far as to say it’s “hard-wired”, but political orientation seems that it might be at least partly related to brain hardware. I wonder which way round the causality goes? If older people tend to be more conservative, and us […]
I’ve just gotten back from a local primary school, where I was running an activity for National Science Week, to teach the kids a bit about computer science. Today was years 1 to 3. Yup, teaching computer science to 6, 7 and 8 year-olds. It was really interesting watching the year 1s have all sorts […]
I went to Serpentine this weekend. I didn’t get to do a lot of bushwalking, but I really enjoyed wandering around the nearer bits. On Saturday night we went for a late-night walk to look for a lost phone. We only had one torch between the four of us, which made navigating rocks, fallen branches […]
On my way home from uni today, in the rain, I discovered three ways that umbrellas are a hazard to cyclists:
People huddle under their umbrellas and lean in to the rain, obscuring their view of what’s around them.
Umbrellas are wider than people, filling up the paths and the spaces between people.
Several people huddling under one […]
