In December, last year at Polly Farmer we had a visit from Jono (check out his awesome site) to show us how to do Claymation. Here are some of the results. I did the nerdy maths one and the kids did the more creative ones.
The American science funding catastrophe
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It’s been almost impossible to get reliable information this week, but
here’s what my sources are telling me: There is still a complete freeze on
money bei...
How the Green Energy Narrative confuses things
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by Russ Schussler (Planning Engineer) Prequel to “Unravelling the narrative
supporting a green energy transition.” There is a powerful but misleading
nar...
Light-Up Dragon Bookmark by Emily Brooks
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Here Be Dragons! For all my fellow dragon-loving readers, this light-up
bookmark is for you! Did you know that cartographers inscribed “Hic Sunt
Dracones...
The AI Fad Just Burned to the Waterline
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*Sometimes wide moats and billions of dollars to blow lead not to glory but
to hubris, which beckons Nemesis. *
*While everyone was busy reassuring themse...
Turning noise into actionable alerts using Flink
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In this post, I want to share two examples of how you can use pattern
recognition in Apache Flink to turn a noisy stream of output into something
useful an...
Week Notes 04-23
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A week with lots do, but did ok except for being very tired by the end of
it. This week I Took a train to Delft for a meeting of the national
normalisation...
Donald Trump and the end of U.S. hegemony
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from Dean Baker One outcome of the Donald Trump clown show is that we can
safely say the period of U.S. hegemony in the world has come to an end. His
errat...
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,...
Phase 4
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Phase 4 of the Russo / Ukraine war has been underway for many months. I
ought to have started a new thread and explained why I thought so back when
the Kur...
Six Thoughts On AI Safety
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[Crossposted on lesswrong, see here for prior posts] The following
statements seem to be both important for AI safety and are not widely
agreed upon. These...
The Testament of Atrahasis
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The supreme god Enlil had spoken, "Emergency powers, therefore, must be
placed solely in my hands. It pains me deeply to inform you that there is
simply no...
Zelenskyy tells it like it is…
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Global Cooperation Davos 2025: Special Address by Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
President of UkraineJan 21, 2025 This article is part of:World Economic
Forum Annual...
Moon Escape!
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[One from the archives, a previously unpublished short story I wrote c.
2017 on the theme of BASE jumping.] Why anyone thought a prison on the Moon
was a g...
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...
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...
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...
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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