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[muji]

What is the last new thing you learned?

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[aisforamy]

I learned that there is really NO limit to how many bobby pins my hair can hold and STILL not stay where I want it to.

Other than that, I learned how easy it is to make cute wrap bracelets!

[muji]

Okay, those bracelets are seriously adorable. I might have to go make them for all the people ever now.

[aisforamy]

You can get the beaded chain (and ones with rhinestones) at Walmart! I've made at least a dozen, and plan of making a few for Christmas presents this year!

[muji]

I will have to attempt this.

[time_dancer]

Oh I may have to show those to my daughter. She's trying to come up with ways to make money as was trying last week to make friendship bracelets to sell to her friends but had trouble with the knots. These look much easier.

[aisforamy]

She should have no problem with these! I did use a clip board to hold the top while I was wrapping it, and that made it easier! I hope she enjoys it!

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

The clipboard is a great idea! We had been taping the ends to table but that kind of forces you to sit in one place until you get it done.

(Using mun account to comment this time.)

[spooky-lemur.livejournal.com]

I can touch type if I trust myself and watch the screen as I type? I also catch more typos this way.

[muji]

Yay touch typing! It's a nice skill to have. :D

[nocarename]

I don't know if I'm learning anything but I've been listening to the surgery 101 podcast. Being that I'm not a medical anything I blame Ako.

[muji]

Blaming Ako solves most things, I find. :D?

[nocarename]

Most things with biology trends for me. I don't need to blame Robo for keeping an eye on space news and high energy physics - I did that before for fun.

[sdelmonte]

I learn all sorts of cool things every day because I read io9 and Space.com. Hard to pick just one thing.

Maybe the news that European astronomers found a "superearth" 36 light years away that could actually support life as we know it.

Or, more depressingly, that SpaceX covered up a glitch in its "perfect" test launch last December. What have we learned? That my concerns about private industry's efforts to get to space might not be so wrong after all.

[muji]

Oh, SpaceX. *makes face*

[nobl3sse-obl1ge.livejournal.com]

Oh my lord, SpaceX. It is very hard to know how to feel about them.

The superearth is such an interesting thing. No matter what turns out it will certainly continue to provide interesting information. But I do wonder what they mean by "making a target list of habitable planets in a specific zone". Is something actually being planned here?

[rustedtoaster.livejournal.com]

Spiders eat their old webs before spinning new ones.

[muji]

Whut. Really? Wow.

[nocarename]

Makes sense. That's a lot of protein to produce and not get back.

[spiffynamehere.livejournal.com]

I learned that Mozart was kind of an immature dork and he had a sister that he described as being more talented than he was.

Ba da ba ba baaaa~ I'm lovin' my Music, Film, and Theatre class!

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you've seen it, but there's a movie coming out about her:
http://www.mozartssister.com/

[camwyn]

That the vast majority of modern beehives used in the United States and a significant portion of the rest of the world are virtually identical in design and function to the movable-frame beehive patented in 1852 by the Reverend Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth, who clearly must have been some kind of superhero with a name like that.

... okay, that's not the most recent thing I learned, but I wanted to share the coolest name in apiculture with y'all anyway.

[muji]

That is such an epic name. Why is he not his own YA superhero character?

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Wish I knew. Possibly because he looks like somebody's grandmother. Seriously.

His superpower appears to have been animal observation and comprehension, since he was into watching and trying to understand insects even as a boy- he got punished for wearing out his trouser knees spending too much time kneeling by anthills. When he grew up he had depression issues and took up beekeeping to deal with them, and went right back to the insect observation thing, at which point he designed the hive that makes modern agriculture and beekeeping as we know it possible. And then wrote a fascinating book which is available on Project Gutenberg, The Hive and the Honey-Bee.

Gotta love this man. Seriously.

[time_dancer]

OMG It's Mrs. Doubtfire!

[kd7sov]

Fluttershy wants to meet him now.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

What's that icon from?

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Someone did a Harry Potter version of Skippy's List (of things PFC Skippy Schwartz is no longer allowed to do in the US Army). The text of the icon came from that. Don't know who made the actual image, though.

[badninja.livejournal.com]

How to properly read sheet music. And a bunch of quantum physics stuff I didn't understand too well from my brother talking about his thesis.

[mapped-dragon.livejournal.com]

>things I don't understand said by Patrick

My answer forever.

[badninja.livejournal.com]

SOMETIMES I VAGUELY KNOW...

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

Oooh, someday I hope to learn how to properly read sheet music.
*has an envy*

[gorgonfondness]

I was the one who taught her how to read sheet music if that helps.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

ORLY!?

[gorgonfondness]

Ya rly.

Though my teaching style was more along the lines of "gave her a decoder ring". We did it over IM in hardly any time at all.

[nobl3sse-obl1ge.livejournal.com]

Possible applications of dirac sea theory versus expansion of the universe.

And before that, that there is an insect in Japan that can literally melt your face through spitting acid.

I have decided to never go to Japan.

[badninja.livejournal.com]

It's the botflies that freak me out.

[mapped-dragon.livejournal.com]

Don't forget learning that you have to!

My face has not melted yet.

[lady_bols]

I learned the difference between a reducing and an oxidizing flame, while using my new oxy-propane mini-torch.

Also, copper melts at 1981.4F/1083C. Which is effing hot.

[gorgonfondness]

I learned that I don't like lying around doing nothing for 20 minutes at a time.

I already knew what the expression "apple of my eye" meant but I learned recently that "apple" was apparently used as a shortened form of the word "aperture." Which makes sense with what I knew before but I found that tidbit interesting.

[agoodshinkickin.livejournal.com]

My lesson for the week is no where near as academic as everyone else's, but...I learned that I can jog for five minutes straight without keeling over.

(Also that "Star F*ckers Inc." is really not a great song, or at very least a poor choice to hear three times in a 20 minute set.)

[ceitfianna]

My Masters of Information is in the mail. Michigan sent me an email!

[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Mazel tov!

[kd7sov]

Some Arabic words! Including 'thief', 'sailor', 'boy', and 'girl'. And yes, we were taught them in that order.

Now I want to learn how to type in the Arabic alphabet.

[genarti]

I'm so curious about the context of this very specific language lesson.

[venusadept_2]

Well, a week or two previously we had watched some of this video, up to about the six-minute mark. (From the DVD, rather than on Youtube.) After taking a break to learn the alphabet and how to string the letters together, we returned to some of the vocabulary therefrom to get an idea of what actual Arabic words (that we, in theory, could recognize) looked like.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

How to use that blender marker for my markers. I was always "WTF is this for!?"

And now I know.

[mr_gaeta]

I learned how to make kale chips! Omgsotasty. I may have to pick up another bunch of kale before the week's out.

I'm also in the process of learning how to roast chickpeas and marinate/grill portobello mushrooms -- the former are a little too squishy still, the latter involved either too much vinegar in the marinade or too long in said marinade. But they were both tasty! I just know they can be tastier, and I will FIGURE THIS OUT. *firm nod*

[not_his_pa]

Please share all of these recipes because they sound so tasty. I adore chickpeas and I've had roast chickpeas at a restaurant and would love to know how to make them.

[hey35andholding]

I learned how to card wool!