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.

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

Human beings do not have an instinct for war “interpersonal violence is a human adaptation, not unlike sexual activity, parental care, communication and so forth. It is something we see in every human society. Meanwhile, war — being historically recent, as well as erratic in worldwide distribution and variation in detail — is almost certainly […]