A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it’s like inside the family, and whether they could do it too. Well, I can tell them, because I’ve done it.
Author: luapo
February 19, 2011
| Skicross vs Motocross
February 19, 2011
| Sounds of a Defective Hard Drive
February 19, 2011
| If your hard drive makes noises like these and you are still able to access your files – backup immediately.
Turtle Interrupts Underwater Wedding
February 18, 2011
| Turtle was trying to steal his girl.
That’s the Most Illegal Thing I’ve Seen in the History of Wrestling!
February 18, 2011
| The Dow Piano
February 18, 2011
| The daily trading of the Dow Jones industrial average determines the songwriting here, translating the ups and downs of 2010’s market into musical notes. Using a five-note scale spanning three octaves, pitch is determined by each day’s closing level.
Heavy trading volume – most notably on the day of the May 6 ‘Flash Crash’ – leads to high musical volume. Notice the piano tends to play quietly around holidays. The notes are generally clustered in series of five, representing Mondays through Fridays. Follow along with the graph to experience the market in a (somewhat) musical way.