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Why Evolution Is True

Saturday duck report - There will be no Caturday Felid report today, though I have several incomplete versions in draft. Instead, I need to bring you up to date on Esther and her...
3 hours ago
The Ethical Skeptic

Stand in the Gap - Though dragons may spit and cowards will sneer, I stand the gap—and persevere.
14 hours ago
Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Skin Distorts Light - New research. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
20 hours ago
oftwominds

To Make America Great Again, Start Here - *Our status quo is so thoroughly corrupt that it's no longer even seen as corruption, it's just BAU--business as usual. * *It's a big ask, but let's depol...
1 day ago
Noahpinion

The Elite Overproduction Hypothesis - A repost from the Noahpinion archives, with a few updates.
1 day ago
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Where the fight against energy subsidies stands - The final "Big Beautiful Bill" failed to truly terminate solar/wind subsidies. But there is still the opportunity to do so, along with making other crucial...
1 day ago
Farnam Street

Harley Finkelstein: Why You Must Requalify for Your Role—Every Year [The Knowledge Project Ep. #236] - What does it mean to live – and lead – with intention? This week, I sit down with my friend and Shopify President Harley Finkelstein to explore what hap...
1 day ago
Information Processing - Steve Hsu

Omar Shams: AI Founder and Google AI Agent Lead — Manifold #89 - Shams was trained in theoretical physics before becoming an AI engineer at DeepMind and founding the company Mutable, which was acquired by Google.
2 days ago
Real-World Economics Review Blog

GOP spending bill: how many people have to die? - from Dean Baker That’s the question Republicans in Congress are debating as they struggle to put Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill (BBB)” in final form to...
3 days ago
Overcoming Bias

Reason’s Overreach - Our most basic and ancient system for learning the consequences of our actions is natural selection.
3 days ago
Interdependent Thoughts

Former MFA Gabrielius Landsbergis Joins Defend Democracy Advisory Board - Gabrielus Landsbergis, until late last year the minister for foreign affairs of Lithuania, has joined the advisory board of Defend Democracy, a Dutch non-p...
3 days ago
Michael Hudson

The War Beneath the War - In this dynamic interview, economist Michael Hudson unpacks the deeper forces behind the U.S. war on Iran. Far beyond regional tensions, Hudson argues th...
4 days ago
Club Troppo

Some collected observations on the Middle East crisis. - I posted something similar on Facebook a few days back, and thought I might get some useful feedback here. Iran is criticised for violating their obligatio...
4 days ago
dale lane

A mid-year (non-work) checkpoint - We’re half-way through 2025, which means it’s a good time to check how I’m doing against some of the goals I set for the year. Read more I wanted to read m...
4 days ago
Planetocracy

Mass Value Report for June 2025 - Is the space revolution slowing down, or just resting for a moment?
4 days ago
John Quiggin

The end of US democracy - I’ve held off posting this in the hope of coming up with some kind of positive response, but I haven’t got one. When I wrote back in November 2024 that Tru...
5 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

BusyBeaver(6) is really quite large - For overdetermined reasons, I’ve lately found the world an increasingly terrifying and depressing place. It’s gotten harder and harder to concentrate on re...
1 week ago
Azimuth

Counting with Categories - You can see some lecture notes for a minicourse on combinatorics that I’m teaching at the Summer School on Algebra at the Zografou campus of the National T...
1 week ago
Windows On Theory

Machines of Faithful Obedience - [Crossposted on LessWrong] Throughout history, technological and scientific advances have had both good and ill effects, but their overall impact has been ...
1 week ago
Our Finite World

What should individuals do in a world filled with conflict? - Regardless of how things play out, it is the physics of the self-organizing system that determines what happens next. No matter how offended we as individu...
2 weeks ago
Casey Handmer's blog

NASA Is Worth Saving - Casey Handmer June 2025 Download a printable PDF. NASA was founded in 1958 in response to Sputnik and the emerging necessity of a robust, government suppor...
3 weeks ago
The Philosopher's Beard

Tiny Countries Should Not Exist - There is no good reason for tiny countries to exist, and we should stop making more of them. The World Bank classifies 40 countries as 'small states' on t...
3 weeks ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Complicating the IPCC Planck Feedback, Plank #4 of Climate Resilience Theory - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has an idea about how the Earth cools itself: when the planet’s surface warms up, it sends more heat...
4 weeks ago
Climate Etc.

Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part III: The problem with power markets - by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) Part 3 of this series examines power markets, promoted by policymakers (FERC) and industry advocates to lower costs...
5 weeks ago
Computing Education Blog

Seeking K-12 Computing Teachers With Emerging Bilingual students in their classes - Emma Dodoo is a PhD student working with me. Emma works with K-12 computing teachers who have emerging bilingual (EB) students in their classes, e.g., stud...
5 weeks ago
Bits and Behavior - Medium

How is fascism going for you? Here’s how it’s going for me. - [image: Fuzzy speckles of red, black, and yellow, with a circular cutout in the center, and stick figure Amy pushing against its edits, with an angry, resi...
1 month ago
Rodney Brooks

Parallels between Generative AI and Humanoid Robots - Anyone who reads just about anything these days will know there are two big things in AI at the moment. They are Generative AI and Humanoid Robots. There i...
1 month ago
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Piero and Me - I’ve published some personal reflections on Piero Sraffa in the latest New Left Review.
2 months ago
C21st Left

European Far Right are Russian Quislings - We need to strongly oppose pacifist opposition to European re-armament. The latter is urgent and essential to defeating Russian fascist aggression in Ukrai...
2 months ago
Tekkie

Re. software engineering: Seeing the wheel - Many years ago, I heard Alan Kay talk about software that’s commonly used as being “a broken wheel.” I had trouble understanding what he meant by that, but...
2 months ago
danah boyd | apophenia

Five Attitudes Towards Climate Change (and the impact on our society) - For years, I thought that there were two “sides” to the discussion around climate change. There were the people who believed in the science and the people ...
2 months ago
The Snow Report

“Cold calling is psychologically damaging to students”. Discuss. - Image source: MS PowerPoint *Please note - there are extensive comments below this post, including from me. Readers are encouraged to review these an...
3 months ago
STRANGE TIMES

Good News Ukraine. - Sorting out the real situation in the Russo Ukrainian war https://billkerr1947.github.io/ukraineWar/ “Artillery Conquers, Infantry Occupies” and drones are...
3 months ago
Eli Dourado

Cargo airships are happening - I got something wrong; introducing Airship Industries
8 months ago
Invent To Learn

Papert’s 8 Big Ideas (Lithuanian Translation) - Translation by Marius Narvilas Aštuonios didžiosios konstrukcionizmo idėjos Dr Seymour Papert 1999 Pirmoji idėja – mokytis darant. Visada išmokstama ger...
10 months ago
FabLearn Fellows

Marble Maze Modules - Beyond the Marble: How Modular Mazes Build Skills and Spark Wonder Building a marble maze is more than just a fun challenge—it’s a gateway to exploring a w...
1 year ago
Milky Eggs

Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction - Thinking about longevity practically is a tricky affair. On the one hand, we have very little definitive knowledge about how to prolong your healthy years ...
1 year ago