In the television drama, which ran between 1985 and 2002, actor Richard Dean Anderson escaped repeated improbable tight corners with even more improbable improvisations from everyday items based on his impressive scientific knowledge.
My number one piece of Finnish music is Sibelius's Kullervo, an everyday tale (based on the national epic) of incest, murder and suicide.
He also devised a comprehensive taxonomy of everyday sounds based on the principles of ecological acoustics while pointing out the problems with traditional organization of sound effects libraries.
Richter's competition includes a former federal prosecutor, an executive at Teach for America, and an expert on international security at the Council on Foreign Relations, a fact that led one reader to comment on Ricther's piece: "I was expecting a healthy sampling of everyday America based on how The Post described the contest.
In 2009, Fiasco performed in The People Speak, a documentary feature film that employs musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States.
I highly recommend The Design of Everyday Things based on its obvious merits: It sets out to explain user-centric product design, and it does so in text that is informative and accessible.
I thought about this book and its plot line -- a group of boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves with disastrous results -- as I read Ann Collier's blog post in which she explains that "social norms," which she calls "super powers," are "everyday behavior based on intangibles like a family's, peer group's or community's values, habits of thought and living".
Amedi et al. compared neural activations in blind and sighted subjects after they had learnt to recognize everyday objects based on complex artificial sound patterns.
The everyday logo is based on one knocked out by Brin in 1998.
"The everyday response is based on a kind of tiredness," said Alexis Klimoff, a professor at Vassar, who has translated several of Solzhenitsyn's works.
