When I started my postdoc, my lab had been working on a paradigm where the participant taps a key in rhythm with a metronome in the EEG scanner. All it took was one listen for me to realize that the metronome they had created was not steady, especially for the first few clicks. The problem…
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Over the past four+ years, my childhood friend Molly Zeff and I have been creating a game called Wing It that provides a structure for silly storytelling and open-ended creativity, and is quite a lot of fun. The main game mechanic: decide how you would deal with random challenging situations (hordes of jellyfish, locked in a stinky…
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…the oscillation revolution. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-led-lights-alzheimers-plaques-20161206-story.html
DISCLAIMER: I speak from my own ADHD experience. I cannot guarantee that my ideas will work for anyone else, but I’d love to hear about your experiences with ADHD and cleaning! First of all, there are two kinds of cleaning: “cleansing” and “tidying.” The first is what you do to the sink bowl; the second is…
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Slow reels. Willow Session was named in memory of a really cool jam session that Jonah Sidman brought to my house, with Amelia Mason and Bethany Waickman. We played Camel’s Hump and Derry Reel super slow for like ten minutes apiece. So good. Sheet music is available in the “Tunes” section of the website!
I bought a bodhran (Irish drum) at one of the regular instrument yard sales held near Powderhouse Circle in Somerville. (If you don’t know about these, keep an eye out for posted flyers in Davis Square!) It sounded great, but after I had taken it home I saw that the skin wasn’t taught in one…
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Here are a couple more. These days, I generally try to keep things simple — since most of my tune writing actually happens without an instrument in hand (and sometimes no writing tools either), this is easiest, and the products are often more satisfying. But these tunes happened anyways. Enjoy, and if you want to…
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My pace of tune-writing has accelerated, and now I have a library of sheet music gathering dust. But some of the halfway decent ones want to see the light of day, so I’m videotaping them and posting them to Youtube. Here’s some tunes in cross-A! Enjoy, and if you want to learn them, you can find the…
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To see a clear demarcation of the social classes in American society, one need look no further than the boarding process on US Airways. First, the announcement: “We are ready to begin boarding the aircraft by zone.” Then they immediately begin to board the aircraft by caste. First, military personel. Second, “first” class. Third, Dividend…
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