Another fish sensory perception researcher
Here’s
another researcher of fish perceptions, Jacob Engelmann.
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John G. New- Large Mouth Bass researcher
It’s always surprising how a slightly new angle will turn up new
researchers on a topic. It turns out that
John G New is
studying vision and lateral line perceptions in the large mouth bass.
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Large mouth bass
I’ve just come back from a very interesting conversation with a Carleton
fish researcher who has a ton of data on Large mouth bass. Cool! But how
much do I know about large mouth bass? Very little, other than that I have
always found their name kind of amusing, for some reason (perhaps the
bassomatic has something to do with this). In any case, if I could find
out about their perceptual abilities, that would be really excellent.
Here’s
a bit of a blurb on them. It doesn’t say too much about their percpetual
abilities, but does provide a reference to an interesting looking book on
fish perceptual abilities.
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Water and salt
I’m fond of drinking Gatorade when it’s hot, since then I know I’m getting
a reasonable balance of electrolytes. You might think that isn’t much of a
concern, and usually it isn’t, but when it’s very hot, or you are
exercising very vigrously in hot weather, it can be a problem. Especially
since, when it’s hot, you tend to not want to eat much. Apparently,
according to this
site, this is somewhat of a problem in the military, since military
rations are not known for their gourmet qualities, and as a result,
military commanders have to command people to eat up all of their food, so
as to have enough salt in hot weather. This kind of amuses me. I imagine the commander saying “Tom- you will eat your beans or you will clean the toilets, now!!!” On the other hand, it could be
worse- at least they aren’t being forced to subsist on a diet consisting entirely of hardtack, (thanks for the link Erin!)
a hardened cracker type product that soldiers had to eat before more
improved rations came along.
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Revisiting Conservation Psychology
I was revisiting the topic of conservation psychology today, to see if any
new links had popped up on the internet. Sure enough, I found
Volume 10 of the Human
Ecology Review devoted to the subject, and also
an article on
the topic on the American Psychological Association website.
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Yogurt, Kefir and Chevre
And while we’re on the topic of bacteria and yeast assisted foods,
here’s
how to make yogurt, kefir and chevre.
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Sourdough FAQ
Here’s a
lot of information on sourdough.
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Sourdough starter
It isn’t uncommon for me to be trying to find something out about some
aspects of cooking and suddenly come upon a slew of links to SCA sites.
It’s inevitable- I’m irresistibly drawn to medieval European and Middle
Eastern cooking, and SCA people know a heck of a lot about that topic. (As
an aside, I think there should be a single word that
covers ‘medieval european and middle east’ because during that time, that
whole area was so very interestingly connected in so many ways-
commercial, religious, etc. There probably already is, and if you know
it, I encourage you to let me in on it).
All this to say that my current culinary interest is sourdough starter,
and I found
this
useful page about it, and other unrefrigerated delights.
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Ottawa’s Seasonal Produce
Spring is here, the grass is green and in-season produce is starting to
appear! I’ve already been munching on the violet and dandelion leaves in
my backyard. Asparagus and rhubarb should be available from local farms
now too. Here’s a
link to local organic farms to get your mouth watering.
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How to Shoot a Zombie Movie When You’re in 6th Grade
I found a link to
this
entertaining and insightful article about how to make a zombie movie while
surfing imdb.
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Nut Milk Story
I’m always returning to the idea of nut milk, because I love milk products
so much, but I’m always aware of the environmental implications. As I
learn more about foods and how they work, I also get a better sense of
what would work as a milk substitute, and why.
This
page has a number of useful ideas, in this repsect.
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Sources of Motivation
I’ve been spending some more time thinking about motivation. I know I
think about this topic a lot, but that’s because it ties into two
important areas of my life- working on my thesis, and engaging in physical
activities. These are both areas where I know that the eventual outcome (a
PhD and a strong healthy body) will give me a great deal of satisfaction,
but where my motivation tends to fail in the here and now. So, I continue
to try to understand motivation. To that end, I found this
cool chart about sources of motivation, and what sort of motivational
inducement system works best for each soure of motivation. For example, in
the case of exercise, my motivation is probably Self Concept Internal and
Goal Identification. Still, I have to say that, in certain cases, when I
just need that extra little boost to get started, I tend to
respond very well to self imposed reward systems where I reward myself by
letting myself buy books, so I may try that out.
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Intersection of plane and ray- you can do it!
Okay, I am settling on the intersection of plane and ray plan.
Here are some instructions on how to do that.
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Quickhull algorithm in C
Here is the 3d
quickhull algorithm, in C.
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Convex Hull Algorithms- understandable too!
I also need to know if a point is inside or outside a convex hull.
Here,
finally, is a page that is not too hard to understand. Thank you 3D game
designers.
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Point to a plane
It looks like there will be some cases when I can just use point to plane
math. Here’s a
nice summary of that.
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Convex Hull Code
I really don’t want to have to write my own code for doing convex hull
calculations.
this
page has links to some C libraries, so maybe I’ll be able to make use
of them.
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Fun with 3d shapes
Since my aggregate models are now in 3d, I am learning all sorts of things
about 3d geometry. For instance,
here is some
information about cones, and
here is some
information about ellipsoids.
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Frog Vision
Here’s a
whole lot of information on frog vision.
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Eye
Here is a really excellent
article on the eye, from wikipedia, including the evolution of the eye,
how different animals’ eyes work and what visual acuity is.
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