In December, last year at Polly Farmer we had a visit from Jono (check out his awesome site) to show us how to do Claymation. Here are some of the results. I did the nerdy maths one and the kids did the more creative ones.
Saturday: Hili dialogue
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Welcome to CaturSaturday, December 6, 2025, and National Rhubarb Vodka Day,
celebrating what must be the world’s most dreadful hard liquor. If you
really w...
Pride and posting
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[image: The university district in Seattle, with a post rain shower rainbow
amidst a cloudy sky.]A view from the UW Tower, on a sunny Autumn day.
Like most...
Friday Squid Blogging: Vampire Squid Genome
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The vampire squid (*Vampyroteuthis infernalis*) has the largest cephalopod
genome ever sequenced: more than 11 billion base pairs. That’s more than
twice...
Greed, Centralization, Monopoly, Ruin
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*Greed is good up to the point that it delivers ruin. *
*The primary characteristic of this era is the purposeful confusion of
profit and greed, as if the...
If NAPLAN was football, we’d cheer the goals
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Image source: MS PPT
This week, 2025 school National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy
(NAPLAN) data was made publicly available via the My Scho...
Too many promises; too few future physical goods
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The world is filled with financial promises, including loans, pensions, and
even the market value of stocks. So far, the system seems to be working,
but in...
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I will be in Warsaw from Tuesday January 13th late afternoon until Saturday
January 17th early morning. I will be in Warsaw for a CEN-CENELEC JTC25
plenary...
Will fewer kids mean fewer scientists
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I’ve been seeing more and more alarmism about the idea that, on current
demographic trends, the world’s population might shrink to a billion in a
century o...
Summer Research at Topos
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You can now apply for the 2026 Summer Research Associate program at the
Topos Institute! This is a great opportunity. Details and instructions on
how to ap...
Harvey at 90: A Verso Series
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From the Verso website: This month, in honour of David Harvey‘s ninetieth
birthday, we’re publishing a series of short essays on David’s unparalleled
contr...
Back to the future!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6CLlNfjoew Times Radio’ Apr 17, 2025
Interview with General Ben Hodges Trump’s ‘failure’ in Ukraine risks war
with Russia ...
Forth: A beginning?
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I searched for many years for something that felt like a baseline, that I
could present as a basis for learning and exploration re. system
programming, and...
Captain Scott’s 1912 Antarctic tragedy
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by Mila Zinkova Reassessing The Coldest March by Susan Solomon On Thursday,
29 March 1912, Captain Scott (1914) made the final entry in his Journal. He
w...
Cowboy Capitalism in Central Asia
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Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff unpack Trump’s 35b dollar Central Asia
push, Chevron’s ecocide, BRICS vs G7 and AI fake videos stealing their work.
The p...
Maverick Dark Castle
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On Saturday, I ran the Maverick Dark Castle: an 11km night time trail run
around Corfe Castle. I’d not done a night run before, and had never run a
trail r...
Some musings on reality motivated by the age of AI
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Is there anyone at home? Is the chess program on your phone conscious? Is
ChatGPT5 a conscious agent? Will ChatGPT9 be conscious? Most people would
answer ...
Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics
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Crossposted on lesswrong Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years
ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. Well, not quite
nothing. T...
The Final Step of the Scientific Method
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An ideology that cannot be defended by means of evidence and deductive
logic, will inevitably be enforced by violence. You shall know them by
their habit: ...
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