How Buddhist rituals helped my OCD “…growing up in evangelical Christianity, and now practising Tibetan Buddhist rituals, I have come to understand….Some rituals are designed to help us ‘keep ourselves together’. Others are designed to help us fall apart.”

Climate change denial Phil Plait fisks a climate change denail article in The Telegraph

The moon rocket asteroid “An amateur astronomer discovered asteroid J002E3 orbiting the Earth in 2002. By observing how the object was moving and measuring its spectrum, it was determined that the asteroid was man-made and probably the third stage of Apollo 12’s Saturn V rocket.”

What I would have written This essay about how Twitter kills the desire to write long essays is pretty accurate for me. Where I differ, perhaps, is if that’s a bad thing or not. (A) Writing long essays can be just as addicting as Twitter. (B) Writing long essays takes a lot more time. (C) […]

What I Worry About When I Worry About STEM “By focusing on STEM subjects in isolation, or congratulating kids on studying engineering over elementary education, we are not only failing to challenge the idea that engineering is objectively harder, we are playing into the hands of a power structure that values industry more than humanity, […]

Stephen Hawking’s big ideas… made simple – animation TheGuardian

Sexism, Statistics and Space: How Disruptive Startup Ideas Are Discovered Simpson’s Paradox thoughts

The Post-Lecture Classroom Flipped classrooms: watch lectures on video at home, do “homework” in class.