Top stories published by Igloo in the Rainforest in 2012

The Atlantic published a graph showing the volume of tweets related to the Democratic convention (w/ speech by Michelle Obama on second night) and how that volume compares with tweets related to the Republican convention (see below).

D. Yvette Wohn in Igloo in the Rainforest

Apr 10, 2012

Onion and shallot confit

This is an adaptation of the onion and shallot confit on Martha Stewart’s website. It’s much faster (reduces time…

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Aug 24, 2012

Detecting personality from how people customize their virtual city

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Aug 14, 2012

Housing for tornadoes

Whenever I read or hear about tornadoes damaging houses, it is interesting (although a shame) that despite all our modern technology, we are so vulnerable in front of destructive forces of Nature (or at least, destructive from our point of view. Nature may perceive this as a constructive…

D. Yvette Wohn in Igloo in the Rainforest

Nov 5, 2012

Elephant speaks human language (Korean)

I was so surprised to see an article in article in the NYT (Nov. 2, 2012) about Koshik (Kosik), the talking elephant in Korea. I had actually written a long feature article about Koshik in 2006 in the JoongAng Daily. At the time, a professor at Seoul National…

D. Yvette Wohn in Igloo in the Rainforest

Feb 22, 2012

Art & Architecture in Toronto

Toronto was surprisingly a very sophisticated palette in terms of art and architecture, with nods to modern “appendixes” to the eclectic city. It was hard to understand what Toronto was about; there were so many different pockets of neighborhoods that varied so much from one…

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Mar 6, 2012

Stem cell therapies in Korea

Read my latest article in Nature Medicine about stem cell therapies in Korea…

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