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.
Bill Maher’s latest “new rule”: UFOs
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I didn’t realize how popular Bill Maher is on YouTube: this clip, a
fragment of his “Real Time” show on HBO, has garnered over 520,000 views
since it was p...
Vector Meson Dominance
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I’m only now learning about ‘vector meson dominance’—a big idea put forth
by Sakurai and others around 1960. Here’s a family of 9 mesons called the
‘vector...
Extending Flink SQL
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In this post, I’ll share examples of how writing user-defined functions
(UDFs) extends what is possible using built-in Flink SQL functions alone.
I’ll shar...
Neoliberal economics — a work of absurd fiction
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from Lars Syll ‘Rigorous’ and ‘precise’ economic models cannot be
considered anything else than unsubstantiated conjectures as long as they
aren’t supporte...
Multipolar Oil Markets Are Now a Reality
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Hudson & Wolff argue the Iran conflict is reversing decades of US strategy,
forcing reliance on sanctioned oil, destabilising petrodollar flows, and
expo...
Authenticity as Grace
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Last week I realized that today’s rapid cultural evolution, mediated
greatly by youth movements, seems encouraged by the common modern norm
favoring “authe...
A day at the University of Minnesota
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[image: Brick buildings on the left and right, a handful of students
walking down a pathway, and blue skies.]A sunny Monday at UMN.
Last Fall, I was once a...
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,...
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...
Garmin watch faces
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I have recently been using Claude Code (Opus 4.6) to do a variety of
software projects. One was the completion of an ill-fated attempt to create
a custom w...
Eating The Rich Won’t Fix Climate Change
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The world’s richest 1% have more purchasing power, and hence more command
over what the economy produces than ordinary people. They can afford a more
ext...
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...
Mass surveillance, red lines, and a crazy weekend
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[These are my own opinions, and not representing OpenAI. Crossposted on
Lesswrong] AI has so many applications, and AI companies have limited
resources and...
A New Explanation for Tariffs and Bombings
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Because of energy-related shortages that are already being encountered,
national economies are beginning to act like the players in a game of
musical chair...
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...
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