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Tiger beetle video for the weekend - This came from reader Erik:, who said it was a”Nice short video from KQED about tiger beetles. Unfortunately, the don’t include all ref’s like Ze Frank.” I...4 hours ago
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Why the bursting of the AI bubble would be good for the economy - from Dean Baker It has become common in recent months for people in the business press to note both that AI stocks seem to be in a bubble and that this bub...5 hours ago
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New book: The Story of Capital - My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by Verso.7 hours ago
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Without free speech, America is nothing - We must stand up for the most fundamental right of all.11 hours ago
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Is This the Last Bubble? - *The consensus holds there will be another bubble after the Everything Bubble pops, but this might be misplaced confidence in the godlike powers of central...1 day ago
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[Outliers] Ed Stack: Lessons from Dick’s Sporting Goods - Ed Stack built Dick’s Sporting Goods from a struggling family store into an empire of more than 800 stores and billions in sales. Along the way he nearly...1 day ago
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AlexAI on why European electricity is so expensive, "energy efficiency," and the limitations of batteries - 5 answers AlexAI gave to user questions this week.1 day ago
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If Anything Changes, All Value Dies? - Today Yudkowsky & Soares published their book If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All. I spent the day reading it.2 days ago
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Is There Life on Mars? - NASA finds tentative evidence of life in Martian samples, but has no way to bring them back yet.3 days ago
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Late-Stage Barbarism Meets a Mixed-Economy Bloc - Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson trace a U.S. turn to scapegoating and tariffs as stopgaps for a weakening, polarized economy. From ICE raids and drone s...3 days ago
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Monday Message Board - Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits,...4 days ago
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Life on Mars - On September 10, 2025, NASA announced (again) that it had found potential evidence for life on Mars. A few people asked me about it, so I’m dusting off (an...6 days ago
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Sierra Club talk that may be of interest - One of the chapters of the Sierra Club of Minnesota has asked Joseph Tainter and me to give talks on October 25 at what is being billed as Minnesota's Firs...6 days ago
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Goodbye Frank - Last week Friday my colleague, business partner, friend of 15 years, Frank Verschoor passed away. As I, we, as a team at the company we founded together, k...1 week ago
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Quantum Information Supremacy - I’m thrilled that our paper entitled Demonstrating an unconditional separation between quantum and classical information resources, based on a collaboratio...1 week ago
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Categories for Public Health Modeling - A while back, our team wrote a paper explaining the advantages of categorical methods in public health modeling: • John Baez, Xiaoyan Li, Sophie Libkind, N...1 week ago
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Kyle Chan on the Future of US-China Competition — Manifold #94 - Kyle Chan is a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in Sociology at Princeton University.1 week ago
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The Final Step of the Scientific Method - An ideology that cannot be defended by means of evidence and deductive logic, will inevitably be enforced by violence. You shall know them by their habit: ...1 week ago
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CS 2881: AI Safety - The webpage for my AI safety course is on https://boazbk.github.io/mltheoryseminar/ including homework zero, video of first lecture and slides. Future blog...1 week ago
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The Matthew Effect, Mono-cultures, and the Natural Selection of Bad Science - by John Ridgway Any politician faced with the challenge of protecting the public from a natural threat, such as a pandemic or climate change, will be kee...1 week ago
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Ideology and misdirection - I remember the shock of recognition I got reading liberal Raymond Aron’s critique of Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty. The ideal of a society in which e...2 weeks ago
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AI: great expectations - This time around I decided on a guest column. The guest is a 37 years ago younger me, and this post is one that I wrote in for Manufacturing Engineering in...5 weeks ago
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What have I done?? No doubt a terrible thing! - I never forgot this cartoon strip that I first encountered in my first year at La Trobe University, Melbourne, in 1969. I was pleased to recently rediscove...5 weeks ago
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Fun things to do with Strava - Ninety-nine percent of the time, I think of Strava as a running app. But every now and then, I do something a bit different with it. Here are a few example...5 weeks ago
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What really happened to object-oriented programming? - I saw a question on Quora asking something like, “Why did Alan Kay’s OOP always fail, and the OOP that was implemented as C++, Java, Delphi, etc. always su...5 weeks ago
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Inheritance Tax Is Largely Irrelevant to the Problem of Economic Inequality - *Also available on my new Substack* *Source*Lots of people think that a few people controlling a very large share of a society's economic power is a bad ...1 month ago
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Fractured bones, fractured mind - [image: Two x-rays, one showing lungs, the other showing a displaced and fractured right clavicle.]Pretty pictures of my broken torso. Five weeks ago my bi...1 month ago
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NAPLAN: Where to from here for students who “need additional support”? - Image source: MS PPT As the news cycle moves on from its annual NAPLAN frenzy, school systems, teachers, and most particularly parents are left wonder...1 month ago
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Complicating the IPCC Planck Feedback, Plank #4 of Climate Resilience Theory - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has an idea about how the Earth cools itself: when the planet’s surface warms up, it sends more heat...3 months ago
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Seeking K-12 Computing Teachers With Emerging Bilingual students in their classes - Emma Dodoo is a PhD student working with me. Emma works with K-12 computing teachers who have emerging bilingual (EB) students in their classes, e.g., stud...3 months ago
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Five Attitudes Towards Climate Change (and the impact on our society) - For years, I thought that there were two “sides” to the discussion around climate change. There were the people who believed in the science and the people ...5 months ago
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Good News Ukraine. - Sorting out the real situation in the Russo Ukrainian war https://billkerr1947.github.io/ukraineWar/ “Artillery Conquers, Infantry Occupies” and drones are...5 months ago
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Papert’s 8 Big Ideas (Lithuanian Translation) - Translation by Marius Narvilas Aštuonios didžiosios konstrukcionizmo idėjos Dr Seymour Papert 1999 Pirmoji idėja – mokytis darant. Visada išmokstama ger...1 year ago
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Marble Maze Modules - 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...1 year ago
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Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction - 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 ...2 years ago
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