Peace for our time? (. . and a poll)
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“Peace for our time” was, of course, the phrase uttered by British Prime
Minister Neville Chamberlain on September 30, 1938 after he returned from
signing ...
What Are Atoms Made Of?
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This post starts with the the slides of an elementary talk I gave at Sloans
Bar and Grill, in Glasgow, as part of a wonderful series called A Pint of
Scien...
Staying Like Foragers
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For over ten millennia of the farming era, most folks saw themselves as
tightly tied to small groups that lived in a largely alien and hostile
world, under...
When the Empire Becomes the Risk
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04.25 Glenn Diesen: Welcome back. We are joined today by Professor Michael
Hudson to discuss the devastating global economic struggle which is
resulting ...
Presenting at Current / Kafka Summit
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A few of us at Current this week were talking about how Current (formerly
“Kafka Summit”) has changed over the years, and it got me remembering the
bits I’...
Pet Haidt
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One my betes noires has been in the news lately. Jonathan Haidt has been
annoying me since at least 2012, when I was critical of his bothsidesism on
the cu...
No more NYT cooperation: my dog-rape red line
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Over the years, I’ve written two op-eds for The New York Times about
quantum computing, at the NYT editors’ invitation: I’ve also visited the
NYT office an...
How to build a lunar mass driver
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Casey Handmer May 2026 What? Elon has recently (late 2025, early 2026) been
talking about building many terawatts of orbital AI compute and launching
some ...
CHI 2026 trip report: ay ay AI
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[image: wood latices hanging from the ceiling of a beige foyer.]The foyer
lattice of the International Barcelona Convention Center
There is never a good ti...
Retracing steps
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This is sort of a follow-up to the My journey series. In that, I talked
about learning programming on 8-bit computers, and progressing onto much
more power...
Spring 2026 PCAS Update: Recruiting a new Lecturer
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My last update on the University of Michigan’s Program in Computing for the
Arts and Sciences (PCAS) was in March 2024 (see post here). I did give some
upd...
Rethinking climate change
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by Nicola Scafetta My new book is now published: The Frontier of Climate
Science: Solar Variability, Natural Cycles and Model Uncertainty For more
than t...
ANALYSIS OF THE UKRAINE WAR, 2026
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Bill Kerr Q&A format: What is the situation on the battlefield? The
situation changes everyday. To keep up to date follow some of the links
here to regular...
Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01
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Nothing is ever as good as it first seems and nothing is ever as bad as it
first seems. — A best memory paraphrase of advice given to me by Vice
Admiral Jo...
Some thoughts about Bondi
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Why did it happen? I think that the combination of four factors (listed
below) was close to a sufficient cause. Sufficient at least to make a
terrorist att...
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