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Why Evolution Is True

Conservative religious organization refused restaurant service in Virginia: does this violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964? - This incident is relevant to the Supreme Court’s recent hearings about whether a Colorado web designer could refuse service by refusing to create a wedding...
2 hours ago
Schneier on Security

The Decoupling Principle - This is a really interesting paper that discusses what the authors call the Decoupling Principle: The idea is simple, yet previously not clearly articula...
5 hours ago
John Quiggin

Jefferson rejected even voluntary emancipation - The Washington Post has a long piece about a Virginia family whose current (substantial but not huge) wealth derives from their slaveholding forebears and ...
10 hours ago
Real-World Economics Review Blog

Stress, a negative externality, is ubiquitous - from John Komlos Stress, the body’s biological response to external threats, is generated in the economic system as a negative externality through countle...
10 hours ago
chibitronics

Fading Reindeer Nose Christmas Ornament - The post Fading Reindeer Nose Christmas Ornament appeared first on Chibitronics.
15 hours ago
Michael Hudson

Oligopoly Unchecked - Platypus interview on The Destiny of Civilization The destiny of civilization: An interview with Michael Hudson On July 15, 2022, Platypus Affiliated Soc...
17 hours ago
Information Processing

Decoherence and Quantum Measurement: The Missing Lecture - This is an elementary lecture for students which discusses quantum measurement from the modern perspective of decoherence. Decoherence and Quantum Measurem...
1 day ago
Lauren Margulieux

Additional Analyses: Interrater Reliability and Demographics - This post discusses additional analyses that can help you to establish conclusion validity. Conclusion validity means that your conclusions are reasonable ...
1 day ago
danah boyd | apophenia

What if failure is the plan? - I’ve been thinking a lot about failure lately. Failure comes in many forms, but I’m especially interested in situations in which people *perceive* somethin...
1 day ago
oftwominds

The Bubble Economy's Credit-Asset Death Spiral - *Who believed that central banks' financial perpetual motion machine was anything more than trickery designed to generate phantom wealth? * *Central banks ...
2 days ago
Computing Education Blog

A Workshop on Slow Reveal Graphs for Social Studies Teachers - My collaborator, Tammy Shreiner, is running a workshop for social studies educators on teaching with Slow Reveal Graphs. The idea of slow reveal graphs is ...
2 days ago
Interdependent Thoughts

Week Notes 48-22 - Another overly busy and high speed week, but it should be a bit less hectic and more manageable after this one. This week I Had a half day of sessions on t...
2 days ago
Australian Data Science Education Institute

The power of definitions - It doesn’t matter what technology you teach, when you’re teaching Data Science. I don’t care whether you use Python, R, spreadsheets, or stacking blocks to...
2 days ago
Shtetl-Optimized

Google’s Sycamore chip: no wormholes, no superfast classical simulation either - This is going to be one of the many Shtetl-Optimized posts that I didn’t feel like writing, but was ultimately given no choice but to write. News, social m...
4 days ago
Climate Etc.

“Colorful fluid dynamics” and overconfidence in global climate models - by David Young This post lays out in fairly complete detail some basic facts about Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling. This technology is the core...
5 days ago
Overcoming Bias

Heresy Helps You Think - The main social functions of school seem to be to help students show off their smarts, conformity, and conscientiousness. Schools also babysit, socialize, ...
6 days ago
OpenAI

ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue - We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup quest...
6 days ago
Azimuth

This Week’s Finds – Lecture 10 - This was the last of this year’s lectures on This Week’s Finds. You can see all ten lectures here. I will continue in September 2023. This time I spoke a...
1 week ago
Jennifer Marohasy

A Note on Obfuscation, the 2022 Climate Report, and my Latest Film - The Bureau of Meteorology released its 2022 State of the Environment Report last week, and the headline in newspapers and on radio is that the weather is...
1 week ago
Tekkie

The Dialectical Faith of Leftism - My orientation with this blog has been to try to keep it focused on the best knowledge I can find, in some specific areas, and not tread too heavily into p...
2 weeks ago
Simon's Journal

Just Be Yourself: Belvedere Vodka presents Daniel Craig, Directed by Taika Waititi: Director’s Cut - *"Belvedere Vodka reveals a monumental campaign featuring critically acclaimed actor, Daniel Craig, as he has never been seen before. Directed by Academy...
2 weeks ago
Our Finite World

Today’s Energy Crisis Is Very Different from the Energy Crisis of 2005 - Back in 2005, the world economy was “humming along.” World growth in energy consumption per capita was rising at 2.3% per year in the 2001 to 2005 period. ...
2 weeks ago
Club Troppo

What kind of Character is Sam Bankman-Fried - A friend sent me this article documenting Sam Bankman-Fried’s now well known text exchange with Vox journalist Kelsey Piper. I couldn’t help but think of A...
2 weeks ago
The Snow Report

Balanced Literacy Bingo - Aka *One Size Fits Some* I did a media interview on ABC Radio National’s Life Matters this week, alongside an education academic who is a balanced liter...
3 weeks ago
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Interview: Creating a compassionate geography - “To The Best Of Our Knowledge” executive producer Steve Paulson talked with Harvey for the first episode of a three-part series, “Going for Broke,” produce...
3 weeks ago
Bits and Behavior - Medium

Life off Twitter - Photo by Jon Flobrant on Unsplash Anyone on Twitter has had quite a week, watching Musk’s chaos slowly reveal what has always been obvious: the site is not...
4 weeks ago
Rodney Brooks

Where are the crewed eVTOL videos? - I see lots of hype about eVTOLs being on the verge of being big, but I can’t find any videos of prototypes doing what the hype says will be common place by...
4 weeks ago
The Ethical Skeptic

Houston, The CDC Has a Problem (Part 2 of 3) - As we survey the sizeable array of loose-end and speciously categorized data, it becomes readily apparent that the CDC is exhibiting all the symptoms of an...
1 month ago
The Philosopher's Beard

How Many Children's Lives Is That Worth? - According to the meta-charity GiveWell, the most effective charities can save a child’s life for between 3 and 5,000 US dollars. One way of understanding...
1 month ago
Farnam Street

Lessons on Leadership: Michael Abrashoff on Turning the Worst Ship in the Navy into the Best - Michael Abrashoff was in his mid-thirties when he took command of the USS Benfold, a guided missile destroyer and one of the worst-performing ships in th...
1 month ago
Global Economic Crisis

UK Economy Collapsing Amid Political Disaster - The unfolding Global Economic Crisis has stricken most economies, large and small, with the bitter twins of high inflation and recession. This phenomenon o...
1 month ago
STRANGE TIMES

Kaboom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsW_Flm47yo Russian false flag operation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShXmPA21j-E gas pipes go bang. What’s Putin doing ...
2 months ago
IMF Blog

How Africa Can Escape Chronic Food Insecurity Amid Climate Change - The toll of extreme weather events on crops underscores the region’s challenges and need for policies to save lives and protect livelihoods.
2 months ago
Paulo Coelho

MY WRITING TIPS - On Confidence You cannot sell your next book by underrating your book that was just published. Be proud of what you have. On Trust Trust your reader, don’t...
2 months ago
KatieDays

Choose Your Own Adventure - Let’s say you are in Greenland to remove a core of ice. You’ve never been to Greenland, but think it’s cool to be in a new place. You and your team remove ...
3 months ago
BayesianWatch

The Power of the People - — Kevin B Korb, 30 Aug 2022 How often do we hear things like “What’s the point? I’m only one … Continue reading →
3 months ago
C21st Left

‘Mother’ Nature is punishing us with Covid? Call Child Protection! - Tom Griffiths ****** “In a tribal society in which ‘everyone knows’ that you need to sacrifice a goat to have a healthy baby, you make sure you sacrifice a...
3 months ago
FabLearn Fellows

“STEM Girls” – a project to encourage girls to pursue STEM careers - This text was written with the collaboration of Nicolly Figueiredo, my 11th year math student, at Polo Educacional Sesc in Rio de Janeiro. Thanks Nicolly! ...
4 months ago
Sam Altman

Helion Needs You - Helion has been progressing even faster than I expected and is on pace in 2024 to 1) demonstrate Q > 1 fusion and 2) resolve all questions needed to desi...
4 months ago
No Shelf Required

Wiley Rolls Out Open Access Solution Oable to First 34 Customers - July 6, 2022 – Hoboken, NJ – Wiley, a global leader in research and education, today announced its continued investment in Oable by making the innovative o...
5 months ago
Code Club’s virtual future – My Code Club Journal

AP CSA - After 20 years in education at my local elementary school, I have a new position in the fall at my local high school. I will be their Digital Learning Spec...
5 months ago
Josh Burker's Blog of Musings

My Formula Fun Car - I was a Cub Scout in elementary school and participated in several pinewood derby competions: I even won a third place trophy with one of my designs and ...
5 months ago
Conrad Wolfram

How will the .gov bubble end? - For the last year, I’ve been referring to being in a .gov bubble—that a current western economic predicament has similarities to the .com bubble of 2000 al...
5 months ago
Invent To Learn

ATLIS Resources - ATLIS Opportunities Have Dr. Stager teach Clever Computing for Children to students in your school Attend Constructing Modern Knowledge 2022 Collaborate wi...
7 months ago
Beer, Coffee, and a little DSP

Improving FreeDV 2020 - It’s been a few years since FreeDV 2020 was released. On-air experience suggests FreeDV 2020 is less robust to low SNR and fading than the 700x modes, whic...
7 months ago
HackArt

Animating a visual poem by Joan Brossa with Scratch - In this simple activity, I propose to bring to life a visual poem by Joan Brossa. The idea is to start from a static image (the poem) and create an a...
7 months ago
Daniel Willingham - Daniel Willingham: Science and Education Blog

Should Psychology PhD Programs Require the GRE? - Some colleges are no longer requiring that applicants submit SAT scores (or they’re making them optional) because scores correlate with parental income and...
8 months ago
From Poverty to Power

Influencing for Senior Leaders: a new course on Analysis, Strategy, and Practice. Want to sign up? - For the past few months, I’ve been toiling away with a great team of thinkers/practitioners at LSE and beyond developing a new training course on influenci...
9 months ago
the fifth wave

The mirror of Narcissus and the labyrinth of the Minotaur - The fugitive thoughts captured below came to me while I was reading about, then visiting, the city of Vienna, Austria, a place much more famous for its com...
1 year ago
Making things… Learning Things

Strand A, Coding, and the new Ontario Mathematics Curriculum - Where’s the joy? Creating something, and sharing it, is an exciting and motivating endeavour. With the new 2020 Ontario Mathematics Curriculum now guiding ...
1 year ago
davidsmerdon.com

Meltwater Champions Chess Tour 2021: Who played the most fighting chess? - Surprisingly, the feedback from my Fighting Chess Index was almost universally positive. I say surprisingly because I thought the final rankings would be c...
1 year ago
Oversimplification

PulseFusion - Back in the day, we all had a device in our homes that operated at a temperature of 300 million degrees Kelvin. It was our cathode-ray-tube TV, and t...
1 year ago
Sylvia Libow Martinez

Teaching with Amazon Alexa - Alexa is a voice-activated, cloud-based virtual assistant, similar to Siri on Apple devices, or Google Assistant. Alexa is an umbrella name for the cloud-b...
1 year ago
Robert Slavin's Blog

The Details Matter. That’s Why Proven Tutoring Programs Work Better than General Guidelines. - When I was in first grade, my beloved teacher, Mrs. Adelson, introduced a new activity. She called it “phonics.” In “phonics,” we were given tiny pieces o...
1 year ago
Stager-to-Go

Gary Stager’s Approach to Teaching Programming Masterclass - At the start of the pandemic, I lead an online masterclass sharing my approach to teaching kids to program computers. You may watch that video …
1 year ago