How to convert text book word problems which spoon feed too much into problems that students will have a conversation about and go onto solve with slower but deeper thinking. Even better, Dan is an entertaining presenter who combines humour with socially important knowledge and modern technology.
Why we are heading for another financial crash
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from Lars Syll The recurring pattern in financial crises is broadly the
same. For one reason or another, a shift occurs in the economic cycle —
such as war...
How to create a Scratch extension
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A few years ago, I ran a workshop about how to create custom Scratch
blocks. I made a template repository, based on the Scratch Team repos, but
with a skel...
Sex, Money and Demographics
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*Maybe focusing on next quarter's profits and reaping short-term gains from
financializing everything under the sun with debt weren't such great ideas
afte...
Monday Message Board
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion
and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the
sandpits,...
Stop and think
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In reply to Stop and think by Paolo Valdemarin This made me stop and think.
My company contains a well above average number of actual philosophers, 50%
of ...
Wall Street’s Exit Plan Is You
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Nima Alkhorshid: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, April 16, 2026, and our
dear friend Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson are here with us. Welcome
back. R...
Learning from Nature with System Dynamics
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We have left the Holocene and entered a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in
which the biosphere is rapidly changing due to human activities. We do not
need t...
Press Roundup from Mexico City
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La acelerada producción del capitalismo provoca deshumanización y deterioro
ambiental: David Harveypor Sebastián Campos RiveraBuzos de la noticiaAbr
15, 20...
Three greats who we’ve lost
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Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (1934-2026) won the 1980 Turing Award for
numerous contributions to computer science, including foundational work on
concu...
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...
Biological data storage
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Just a quick note on some probably unoriginal ideas I had about
categorizing biological data storage methods. While it’s important to note
that these are l...
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