January 2010
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One of my favorite first year functional anatomy questions was ‘What muscles are involved in standing from a seated position?’ Think about it. It’s a tough question. In 3rd year biomechanics it became ‘calculate the forces acting through the knee in accelerating a 65kg male cyclist from a standing start to 60kph in 1m.’ The questions I ask myself these days are...
This ping thing is pretty handy.
“2010 will be the year that education stopped hiding from the Internet.”
– 2010 Predictions: Andrew Smith Lewis’s List [Smart.fm and e-Learning]
Chamber of Horrors
I went to London in 1994, and visited Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum. There I saw the blade that guillotined Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette and the electric chair that executed the Lindberg baby’s kidnapper, among other exhibits―all very real. To corroborate these various murderous instruments invented by civilized men, I took the requisite eye-witness photographs: thus did people in times...
December 2009
“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can...”
– Winston Churchill (via reluctantbuddha)
