http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://www.themillions.com/2011/03/zooming-out-how-writers-create-our-visual-grammar.html Maybe you’re young enough to remember Blue’s Clues, or old enough to have a little one hanging on the mystery-solving adventures of Steve and Blue as you read this. If, by any chance, Blue’s Clues happens to be on in the background, try this experiment: watch and see how long the camera holds on a single shot. You will, by design, be waiting a long time. The child psychologists who helped create Blue discovered that young viewers don’t know what to do with cuts and edits; they understand them as a new scene, not the same scene shot from a… ]]> Tue, 08 Mar 2011 10:41:43 -0700 http://www.themillions.com/2011/03/zooming-out-how-writers-create-our-visual-grammar.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr11PhgyOOk&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:35:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr11PhgyOOk&feature=youtube_gdata http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_colapinto In the wake of the controversy that greeted his paper, Everett encouraged scholars to come to the Amazon and observe the Pirahã for themselves. The first person to take him up on the offer was a forty-three-year-old American evolutionary biologist named Tecumseh Fitch, who in 2002 co-authored an important paper with Chomsky and Marc Hauser, an evolutionary psychologist and biologist at Harvard, on recursion. Fitch and his cousin Bill, a sommelier based in Paris, were due to arrive by floatplane in the Pirahã village a couple of hours after Everett and I did. As the plane landed on the water,… ]]> Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:00:00 -0700 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_colapinto http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/opinions/a_common_nomenclature_for_lego_families.php Every family, it seems, has its own set of words for describing particular Lego pieces. No one uses the official names. “Dad, please could you pass me that Brick 2x2?” No. In our house, it’ll always be: “Dad, please could you pass me that four-er?” And I’ll pass it, because I know exactly which piece he means. Lego nomenclature is essential for family Lego building. “Dad, I’m building a roof for the medical pod, but I need a hinge-y bit to make it open up. You know, one of those four-er flat hinge-y bits.” ]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:01:00 -0700 http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/opinions/a_common_nomenclature_for_lego_families.php