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.
Surveillance in the US
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Good article from *404 Media* on the cozy surveillance relationship between
local Oregon police and ICE:
In the email thread, crime analysts from several...
Matthew’s Bernal Prize Lecture on Francis Crick
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The Royal Society has announced the winner of the 2024 Bernal Prize, which
happens to be our own Matthew Cobb: Scientists don’t often admit it to
themselve...
How Housing Bubble #2 Bursts
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*Corporate / private equity / STVR investors are all fair-weather owners of
housing.*
*Let's indulge in some basic logic:*
1. All credit-asset bubbles b...
How the Draft Dilemma has Shaped Modern Warfare
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Explore how oil drives U.S. foreign policy and underpins military
strategy—from covert interventions to proxy wars. Michael Hudson and
Richard Wolff expl...
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,...
NASA Is Worth Saving
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Casey Handmer June 2025 Download a printable PDF. NASA was founded in 1958
in response to Sputnik and the emerging necessity of a robust, government
suppor...
Trevisan prize (guest post by Alon Rosen)
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The Trevisan Prize for outstanding work in the Theory of Computing is
sponsored by the Department of Computing Sciences at Bocconi University and
the Itali...
Guess I’m A Rationalist Now
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A week ago I attended LessOnline, a rationalist blogging conference
featuring many people I’ve known for years—Scott Alexander, Eliezer
Yudkowsky, Zvi Mows...
Tiny Countries Should Not Exist
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There is no good reason for tiny countries to exist, and we should stop
making more of them.
The World Bank classifies 40 countries as 'small states' on t...
The Magical Mystery of The Beatles
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Ian Leslie has released what looks to be a fascinating book about the
Beatles and more specifically the relationship between Lennon and
McCartney. I though...
The Oort Cloud
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The Oort cloud is a huge region of icy objects surrounding our Sun. We’re
not sure it exists, but we think it’s where comets come from. I’ve often
seen the...
Parallels between Generative AI and Humanoid Robots
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Anyone who reads just about anything these days will know there are two big
things in AI at the moment. They are Generative AI and Humanoid Robots.
There i...
European Far Right are Russian Quislings
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We need to strongly oppose pacifist opposition to European re-armament. The
latter is urgent and essential to defeating Russian fascist aggression in
Ukrai...
Re. software engineering: Seeing the wheel
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Many years ago, I heard Alan Kay talk about software that’s commonly used
as being “a broken wheel.” I had trouble understanding what he meant by
that, but...
Good News Ukraine.
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Sorting out the real situation in the Russo Ukrainian war
https://billkerr1947.github.io/ukraineWar/ “Artillery Conquers, Infantry
Occupies” and drones are...
Blame: The Original Cryptocurrency
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They tie up heavy bundles of blame and place them on men’s shoulders, but
they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to help, siphoning off from
the g...
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...
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...
Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction
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Thinking about longevity practically is a tricky affair. On the one hand,
we have very little definitive knowledge about how to prolong your healthy
years ...
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