Category: words

  • The Origins of Pasta

    historical-nonfiction: Pasta, as we know it today, can only be made from triticum turgidum var. durum, or “durum wheat.” Because of its high gluten content, this type of wheat allows hard, dry pasta with a long, safe shelf life. Because the ancient Etruscans and Romans did not know about durum wheat, they could not have…

  • br4vest: superheroesincolor: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2009) “Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school…

  • The promise of the Internet of Things has duped folks into thinking that the traditional manufacturing process + software = orders of magnitude higher productivity. Software is helpful, but if you’re redesigning a system, software’s benefit is marginal — you get greater returns by changing the Thing than the Internet behind it. In indoor farming, we see…

  • This incredible soft robot needs no batteries or computer chips

    This incredible soft robot needs no batteries or computer chips another step in the evolutionary path of soft robots

  • Behind the scenes WIP sneak peek #MiTierraDAM must see to believe! (at Denver Art Museum)

  • Yes! #latergram from yesterday (at Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver)

  • If Mattel has such a right or obligation, should recordings be prescreened before they are uploaded to servers for Mom and Dad to hear? In some cases, “That sounds like something you should talk to a grown-up about” may be appropriate, but what if the child already is talking to a grown-up – the one…

  • Game Development Shenanigans!

    Game Development Shenanigans! one of my students has started to blog her game development process!

  • All bags and persons are subject to search (at Coors Field)