I just heard a funny story via someone who has been working in remote Australia
A State Government ALP VIP visited the Pitt Lands and asked an aboriginal person what he thought about the Rudd government's apology to the stolen generation
The person consulted with some people nearby and eventually responded saying "Hey brudda we don't know nutthin 'bout that stolen generator".
Dittemore’s Law
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A quick note to formalize some observations on elite organization
dysfunction. The Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center in Florida
commemorates th...
Orcas imitate human speech
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There will be news tomorrow as Israel finalizes its ceasefire deal with
Hamas. In the meantime, let’s hear a story about how orcas can imitate
human speech...
Obelisks
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Wow! Biologists seem to have discovered an entirely new kind of life form.
They’re called ‘obelisks’, and you probably have some in you. They were
discover...
What Would Socrates Do?
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Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus
do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard
suggests we in...
Is Placing a Wager in a Casino an "Investment"?
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*Producing quality goods that aren't addictive or obsoleted in a few
years--there's no money in that, fool. Get real. You want to get rich,
"invest" in a b...
Meet the Maker: Andrew Crawford
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Curator of Infinite Interests Today’s spotlight is on Andrew Crawford, a
modern-day Renaissance man and cultural anthropologist who dabbles in a
dizzying...
Hubris. Burning. Cinders – Lessons for us all.
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Cinders are the black pieces that are left after something such as wood or
coal has burned away. People can also burn. There was a terrible bushfire
in ...
Week Notes 02-25
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The first full week of the new year, in which I returned to work. This week
I Found it hard to get up at my usual early time. Did most of the company
invoi...
Weaponizing the US Dollar
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Trump has promoted a number of plans to make America strong – at other
countries’ expense. Given his “we win; you lose” motto, some of his plans
would pr...
Tipping Points
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Years ago, while worrying about climate change, I took both comfort and
alarm from the idea that there would come a point where everything climate
scientis...
The Ministry of Empowerment
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Fuck you Facebook. That was the first thought I had when I woke up this
morning. Followed by: What ministry is Mark Zuckerberg volunteering to
manage for t...
An Energy and the Economy Forecast for 2025
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In this post, I share a few thoughts on what might lie ahead for us in
2025, in the light of the hidden inadequate world energy supply. I am
predicting maj...
Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01
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[You can follow me on social media: @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social and see my
publications etc., at https://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks] This is my
seventh ann...
Fragmentation in academic leadership
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[image: On the top half, green flowing river water, and on the bottom,
fractured rock.]Academic leadership is essential, impossible. Credit: Bernd
Dittrich...
Liberation in Syria Is a Victory Worth Embracing
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The country is now free, yet some remain trapped in the past This is a 9
minute read – the best I’ve come across regarding the Syrian uprising. I
have requ...
Wind and Solar Can’t Support the Grid
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by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) In October of 2025, the isolated
small city of Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia with a 36 MW load
(includ...
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award
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(From Sergey Yekhanin; committee chair) Please nominate people to the
Kanellakis award – deadline is December 15.
https://awards.acm.org/kanellakis/nominat...
Papert’s 8 Big Ideas (Lithuanian Translation)
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Translation by Marius Narvilas Aštuonios didžiosios konstrukcionizmo
idÄ—jos Dr Seymour Papert 1999 Pirmoji idÄ—ja – mokytis darant. Visada
išmokstama ger...
On taking first steps into a new orientation
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This is a follow-up to my post On improving a computing model. My posting
to this blog has slowed down a lot over the last few years. One reason for
that i...
Experts vs. Imitators
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If you want the highest quality information, you have to speak to the best
people. The problem is many people claim to be experts, who really aren’t.
Saf...
Diary
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For the full record. Arthur Dent deliberately set out to wreck this site
early in 2016 and considering it was on life support at the time this was
easily a...
Marble Maze Modules
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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...
Return to 4th grade Code Club
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One of my high school seniors wanted to do a service project teaching
coding to elementary students. He loved our field trip to the elementary
school that ...
Wellness: Bad Stress: Philosophy – Stoicism
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In a previous post, I mentioned that I started researching wellness a few
months into the pandemic when I noticed my physical and mental health
declining. ...
Podcast: David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles
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Dialectical analyses of the capitalist totality through a Marxist lens.
David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles is co-produced with Politics In
Motion, ...
Dreamtime (fragment)
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Erin Riley is producing an exhibit of my TurtleArt and ArtLogo programming
at Greenwich Academy in March of 2020 and is helping, along with Zoë
Hedstrom...
ScreenTime
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It is pretty easy to add a rectangular fly screen to a sash window. But
the problem with sash windows is that the maximum they can open is half,
and th...
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