Despite its unintended consequences, I’m optimistic about technology. What choice do we have?
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Siphons are awesome
Quick video of how to show a siphon to a 3-year-old.
Teaching kids science
I’m a big believer that you lay the foundations for thinking at an early age. My daughter’s in a preschool that invites parents to teach classes, so rather than whining about the lack of science education, I thought I’d do something about it. Yesterday I ran the second science lesson I’ve taught there. It wasRead more
Game-changers and game theory
Organizations resist change because they’re in an equilibrium, and it takes a disruption to move the market they’re in to a new one. Or why Visa doesn’t care about me.
Someday the magic will stop
We’re wired to seek controversy and novelty and to find false positives; all of these make bad science but good headlines. We have to stop all this magical thinking, or the magic itself will stop.
Gathering moss: data gravity and context
Dave McCrory’s work on Data Gravity says that the tendency of data to cling together comes from the usefulness of the resulting knowledge. Here’s a concrete example.
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