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Sharing your work

Sharing your work: …is taking a risk. …but it increases quality because your name is attached to it. …and it almost always provides unexpected benefits, because you never know what others will do. I have experienced all of this first hand through this Sketchplanations project. I credit sharing and creating in public, with Sketchplanations eventually becoming the book Big Ideas Little Pictures. Also see: Feedback fear Share by default…Sharing your work: …is taking a risk. …but it increases quality because your name is attached to it. …and it almost always provides unexpected benefits, because you never know what others will do. I have experienced all of this first hand through this Sketchplanations project. I credit sharing and creating in public, with Sketchplanations eventually becoming the book Big Ideas Little Pictures. Also see: Feedback fear Share by default

21 Apr 2014

The Plimsoll line

The International Load Line, formerly called the Plimsoll Line, is an internationally adopted system for ensuring ships aren’t overloaded. Safe loading levels vary depending on the salinity—how salty it is—and the temperature of the water. Also see: Set an anchor Iceberg orientation Anchors and tugboats…

8 Apr 2014

How to make Irish coffee

7 Apr 2014

Thunder clouds

Thunder clouds are so impressive. Lightning forms due to air currents in the cloud as warm moist air rises up quickly. All the collisions between particles cause different charges to develop between the top and the bottom of the cloud. When that gets large enough, kapow! Also see: thunderclap or rumble, dirty thunderstorms.…

6 Apr 2014

Measures of central tendency: mean, median, mode

Very easy to forget the difference between the mean, the median and the mode. Mean: the average value. Median: the middle value of a list in ranked order. Mode: The most frequent value.…

5 Apr 2014

Darwin’s 5 principles of Natural Selection

Reproduction. Excess. Variation. Selection. Divergence.…

4 Apr 2014

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