Real T-Shirts Are Also Reproducible
I decided recently that I want a reproducibility-themed t-shirt. Technology being what it is, I was able to make one in a matter of hours:
#making things
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2048: Exponential Growth Edition
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I made a thing:
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Over There
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →Time for another list of excuses for shamefully neglecting this blog:
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My life in links
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →A round up of recent goings on:
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Busybody
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I've been a bit busier than usual the last few weeks. Missed last week's post. More beer for everyone! Here's a list of things I've done between my last post and now. (Why yes, this is a pretense for skipping another week. Glad you asked.)
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Guess Who
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →This week I visited New York and stayed with my cousins while their mother was in the hospital. Over the course of several days, my younger cousin, K, and I hacked the board game 'Guess Who?'
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Puzzling
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →My sister asked me to make a puzzle hunt for her bachelorette party. While it's tailored to her interests, it should be possible for anyone to solve - and hopefully pretty fun, too.
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One time, at hackerspace freeschool camp...
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →Just finished off my three weeks at camp with an afternoon of making chocolate gears, legos, and chess pieces using the latex molds we created during the week. The chocolate gears did not actually function as gears, so I am 0 for 1 on attempts for my friend Dan's moving wedding cake, but I'm going to try again with better gears. (Also on the list of ideas to try: a sterling engine made of rock candy, and a helium-filled fruit leather balloon. I still like the chocolate gears idea best, though.)
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Halloween
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →I was a mid-90s geocities page for Halloween. It was a fairly mediocre costume - I had a bunch of ideas for it, some of which worked and many of which didn't. I don't usually repeat costumes but I think I want to try to improve on this for next year.
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Hunting Grounds
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →The last two weeks my attention has been pretty well captured by Parts & Crafts, the summer camp my housemates run. They invited me to come teach this past session, which was themed 'Imaginary Worlds'. We made card games, choose your own adventure books, chocolate aliens, telegraphs - but by far everyone's favorite activity was the Puzzle Hunt.
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Pour some sugar on me…
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →The last couple of days have been FULL of cake. My friends' theater company turned five this summer, and they requested a cake from me to have at their celebration. They're called Flat Earth Theater, so the design for the cake was obvious:
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Balloon Geometry
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →Yesterday my friend Nagle and I ran an activity at Bring Your Grandmother To Math at the MIT Museum (a part of the Cambridge Science Festival). A few days earlier, we'd spent an afternoon reading through Vi Hart's blog for inspiration. We looked at the Mobius strip music box, Penny sierpinski triangles, and followed a link to a tricycle with square wheels. We were briefly entranced by various foods in various shapes before finally deciding on a less messy version: balloon geometry.
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Fun and Games
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →Hannukah has always been my favorite Jewish holiday. No fasting, no seders - just candles, latkes, and dreidels. Here's a confession, though. I don't like the dreidel game. It's - well, it's boring.
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The Street Beest
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →Over the last month or so, the folks at Sprout have been putting together a walking machine based off of Theo Jansen's models.
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Learning in the Time of Cholera
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →A few weeks ago, I spent the afternoon at Parts and Crafts, the learning-by-doing oriented summer camp a friend of mine co-founded. I wanted to try out a style of teaching I've been thinking a lot about lately. Inspired by role-playing and puzzle-hunting, I want to create expansive, immersive learning experiences which allow kids to "re-invent the wheel" as well as to see the cultural context in which technology is created and scientific advances are made. It's my hope to incorporate into each "experience" two or more of the following: science and technology, philosophical and political history, arts and literature, themes of social justice.
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How to Make an LED Bracelet in 10 Steps
Read more → More from Shauna's Blog →The other day I was visiting my friend's summer camp when I saw a young camper fiddling around at the electronics table. She showed me the bracelet she had made by twisting wires together in patterns, and said she liked to have "a different take" on electronics from the boys at the camp. After talking a little bit about conductive thread (her mind, it was blown) we set about making a bracelet that incorporated a basic circuit. From our experiences, this is how you do it: