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Prodding Krugman - from Peter Radford Paul Krugman has been on a mission lately. He has been writing extensively about inequality in America. As we all know it’s an ugly pi...8 hours ago
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Worrying indications in recently updated world energy data - The Energy Institute recently published its updated energy report, the 2025 Statistical Review of World Energy, showing data through the year 2024. In this...23 hours ago
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Report from the Cambridge Cybercrime Conference - The Cambridge Cybercrime Conference was held on 23 June. Summaries of the presentations are here.1 day ago
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The United States of Impunity - *AI is the whiff of perfume that's supposed to mask the stench of terminal moral decay.* *It is appropriate to discuss the United States of Impunity on Ba...1 day ago
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Developing countries: A follow-up - Checking in on some countries I wrote about a few years back.1 day ago
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Cognitive load theory doesn't matter - Image source: MS PowerPoint Before you spill your coffee, let me explain. There’s been much written and debated in recent years about Professor John...2 days ago
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No more anti-wokism - I can’t be bothered engaging with people who use “woke” as a pejorative, or similar Trumpist rhetoric. I’ve therefore banned a couple of commentators (Jack...2 days ago
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High-Dimensional Foraging - Me in 2018: Spaceship Earth is in fact a story of a brave crew risking much to explore a strange new territory.3 days ago
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Stone–Wales Transformations - Buckminsterfullerene is a molecule shaped like a soccer ball, made of 60 carbon atoms. If one of the bonds between two hexagons rotates, we get a weird mut...3 days ago
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[Outliers] Les Schwab: Why Real Ownership Outperforms Experience, Capital, and Credentials [The Knowledge Project Ep. #237] - Charlie Munger once asked me: ‘How can someone give away fifty percent of profits and make billions more than if he’d kept it all?’ Before I could answer...5 days ago
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Discord for Manifold - In the past few years I’ve had a number of fun meetups with Manifold listeners in places like SF, NYC, Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai.6 days ago
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UPDATE: Now also on Substack - Google seems to have lost interest in the Blogger app and it is showing its age. I am trying out Substack, and if it works out will be migrating the blo...1 week ago
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Why America No Longer Makes Its Own Future - Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff argue the U.S. is sabotaging its own economy through reckless tax cuts, rising inequality, and dollar devaluation. As fo...1 week ago
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Stand in the Gap - Though dragons may spit and cowards will sneer, I stand the gap—and persevere.1 week ago
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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 week ago
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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...2 weeks ago
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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...2 weeks ago
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Mass Value Report for June 2025 - Is the space revolution slowing down, or just resting for a moment?2 weeks ago
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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...2 weeks ago
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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 ...2 weeks ago
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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...4 weeks ago
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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...1 month ago
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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...1 month ago
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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...1 month ago
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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...2 months ago
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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...2 months ago
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Piero and Me - I’ve published some personal reflections on Piero Sraffa in the latest New Left Review.2 months ago
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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...3 months ago
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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 ...3 months ago
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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
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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...11 months ago
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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
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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 ...2 years ago
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