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.
Cultural Network Structure
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How did our society decide how much to count things like education and
artistic taste when evaluating prestige and status?
Saturday: Hili dialogue
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Welcome to CaturSaturday, April 18, 2026. It’s shabbos for Jewish cats, and
here is an Orthodox Jewish cat from ChatGPT: It’s also National Animal
Crackers...
When My Grandfather Took a Train Trip With a Bull
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My grandfather Klaas Zijlstra (1905-1993) was a farmer and cattle raiser.
He grew up in Fryslân and always wanted to be a farmhand it seems (his
father was...
Sell Now: Here's Why
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*Fear moves fast enough to get inside our OODA loop--observe, orient,
decide, act--so we decide and act only after the damage has been done.*
*The dynamic...
The Blockade Bluff
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Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson, ‘The Blockade Stage of Trump’s
absurdities,” Geopolitical Hour, April 14, 2026. Radhika: Hello and welcome
to the 59th ...
Friday Squid Blogging: New Giant Squid Video
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Pretty fantastic video from Japan of a giant squid eating another squid.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security
stories in...
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...
Australia will run an overt command economy by 2040
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Australia’s Fiscal Point of No Return Last September I wrote about
Australian economic stagnation — how taxation past the Laffer curve’s point
of peak grow...
How many babies do we want: how many will we have?
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Among other things, the unlamented former autocrat Viktor Orban was one of
the leading proponents of pro-natalist policies, and more open than most
about t...
Feldspars
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Returning from a trip to New Mexico to explore some Puebloan ruins, I
picked up this beautiful chunk of labradorite in the town of Quartzsite.
This miner...
Mario Harik: Playing to Win
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How does one engineer run 40,000 people with 10 daily numbers, zero
hobbies, and a $1 billion bet he made in his first year as CEO? Mario Harik
is the CE...
Before we start on quantum
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Imagine that every week for twenty years, people message you asking you to
comment on the latest wolf sighting, and every week you have to tell them:
I hav...
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...
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