Anachronistic Mom Blog

Boris Cyrulnik - interesting psychologist

Here's a quote from Boris:

“I was never put on the ‘conveyor belt’ of life—I’ve always made my own path,” he says. “I do only what is absolutely required to be considered ‘normal.’”

And here's an interesting interview in which he discusses the state of family in the US and other countries, how to create a resilient child, and so forth.

It's Beijing - and the smog is deadly

So here's a question: Once the Chinese have finished raking out all of the algae bloom and jailing all the possible loose dissidents around, do you think that this Olympics will incent them to fix their air quality? Or will that take another fifteen years?

This article describes the situation to a T, although it was written in January.

Here are more current pictures from the Nasa earth observatory website.  Note that Beijing residents haven't been allowed to use their cars since (and some factories closedon) July 20.

Although this is a horror show for the athletes participating, things look to be far better than they were in 2005, or in 2004, when an air show had to be cancelled because nobody could see the sky.

Olympics Notes: Awesome diagram of a gymnastic performance

OK, so here's a little something that will make your toes curl.  Replete with diagrams AND video, Justin Spring shows just what he does on that bar.  One word:  Yeeeeowch!

Neat second life

From the New World Notes blog on second life, here are some remarkable examples of what people have done in second life.

First, Robbie Dingo's remake of a Van Gogh classic.

Fun stuff with photos and video

The BBC has a video segment where they juxtapose satellite images and data to create neat images

I sent this out to my friends and was greeted by some run images in response.  These images are such fun for children - especially the images of unseen activity overlaid on the world.  The telephone calls amazed my son.

large hadron collider
tour de france
tour de france conclusion
recent volcanic activity
views of jupiter

And of course there's this fun panoramic cam site

And the Earth from Space website.

More Librarything Love - despite the Amazon investment

Check out the Shelfari slamming in this post about Amazon's new acquisitions.  In my humble experience, MANY acquisitions end up on the shelf permanentlly.  Let's hope that AbeBooks stays well and that Shelfari gets its spamming nails trimmed!