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Fractured bones, fractured mind - [image: Two x-rays, one showing lungs, the other showing a displaced and fractured right clavicle.]Pretty pictures of my broken torso. Five weeks ago my bi...7 hours ago
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Is there “truth” to be found in the humanities? - I pose the question above because, in my readings about freedom of speech and academic freedom, I repeatedly came across two claims: 1.) Freedom of speech...8 hours ago
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Will data centers crash the economy? - This time let's think about a financial crisis before it happens.23 hours ago
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Mass Value Report for July 2025 - What are the levers that determine who wins the long term space race?2 days ago
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Friday Squid Blogging: A Case of Squid Fossil Misidentification - What scientists thought were squid fossils were actually arrow worms.2 days ago
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Go Ahead and Rage at Boomers, But the Problem Is the Entire Economic Order - *The entire economic order is bankrupt--ideologically, politically and financially. * *A friend sent me a clip of Tucker Carlson going off on the Boomer ...2 days ago
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Quantum Complexity Theory Student Project Showcase #5 (2025 Edition)! - Sorry for the long blog-hiatus! I was completely occupied for weeks, teaching an intensive course on theoretical computer science to 11-year-olds (!), at a...2 days ago
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Exapátisiology - The study of narrative coercion, the intoxicating rush some derive from combining power with just enough deception to mislead—yet not so much as to be caug...2 days ago
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The Kepler Problem (Part 8) - Now comes the really new stuff. I want to explain how the hydrogen atom is in a certain sense equivalent to a massless spin-½ particle in the ‘Einstein uni...2 days ago
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Well said Ha-Joon Chang! - from Peter Radford I shouldn’t. But I will Well, well. Is there life in economics yet? Not so fast. My own journey into the swamp of economics began in t...3 days ago
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Andrew Song: Global Cooling with Sulfur Dioxide in the Stratosphere — Manifold #91 - Andrew Song is a co-founder of Make Sunsets, a company focused on addressing climate change through solar geoengineering.3 days ago
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The MAGA Mirage - Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai dissect the economic illusion of Trump’s presidency six months into his second term. From manipulated markets to rising ...3 days ago
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NAPLAN: Where to from here for students who “need additional support”? - Image source: MS PPT As the news cycle moves on from its annual NAPLAN frenzy, school systems, teachers, and most particularly parents are left wonder...3 days ago
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Ryan Petersen: Building the Hidden Engine of Global Trade - Ryan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport, the platform that coordinates global logistics from factory floor to customer door. In this conversatio...4 days ago
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Answers to student questions on philosophy, STEM, pollution, debates, and more - My Q&A with a high school robotics team5 days ago
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New Climate Assessment Report from US DOE - by Judith Curry Climate science is baaaack Energy Secretary Chris Wright has commissioned a new climate assessment report: A Critical Review of Impacts ...5 days ago
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Hyperdrive City - Hyperdrive City is the birth of the American future. A reminder that we once built soaring structures of steel, cement, stone, and steady certainty in a be...1 week ago
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Ideal end states as source of creativity - Something always felt off when labeling my internal benchmark as perfectionism, and seeing as a remedy doing away with ideal imagined end states and outcom...1 week ago
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What the women of Iran know - A poem written by Tom Griffiths, read by me, with music by my late, much lamented musician friend Peter Gelling (1960-2108), using some material from his a...1 week ago
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Using time series models with IBM Event Automation - Intro Imagine you run a city e-bike hire scheme. Let’s say that you’ve instrumented your bikes so you can track their location and battery level. When a bi...1 week ago
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AI Safety Course Intro Blog - I am teaching CS 2881: AI Safety this fall at Harvard. This blog is primarily aimed at students at Harvard or MIT (where we have a cross-registering agreem...1 week 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...2 weeks 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...3 weeks 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...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...2 months 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...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.3 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...4 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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