Hunkin's Experiments is a great site about all sorts of experiments you can do. For instance:
- how to balance a chair on a broomstick
- how to cast square, round, and triangular shadows from a single object
- how to make an onion glow
- how to cook potatoes with the sun
- how to make a nuclear reactor
Or IAQ (Infrequently Asked Questions). Includes some nifty gems, like a one-liner to create a dictionary of literals and a trick to do C-style abstract methods.
I found a new group blog today: OS Politics. There are some interesting articles there, including a weekly refutation of Ann Coulter's polemic. (Go to the archives and look for entries entitled "Banging my head against the wall".)
California neurologist Fred Baughman is starting a crusade to dispel the "myth" of ADHD.
Baughman concluded his six-page letter to Satcher by saying that "your role in this deception and victimization is clear. Whether you are a physician so unscientific that you cannot read their [the American Psychiatric Association's] contrived, 'neurobiologic' literature and see the fraud, or whether you see it and choose to be an accomplice — you should resign."
It is this direct, no-nonsense style that has made Baughman a pariah among the psychiatric and mental-health communities and a hero to families of children across America who believe they have been "victimized" by the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) label. The "disease," Baughman tells Insight, "is a total 100 percent fraud," and he has made it his personal "crusade" to bring an end to the ADHD diagnosis.
Everyone has heard of the koan "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" Not everyone knows "the answer". So here it is.