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There is. Click the small pixely looking X at the end of the photo's caption.

Designing Tinkering activities is about starting a conversation between a learner and a phenomena or idea.

Well put. This notion of "ignorabimus"[1] which he opposes would seem to have gathered a great deal of evidence in the meantime. What I wish was more widely understood today was th…

Me too! There have been a few experiments in this but none have caught on. Here's a nice article that explores the idea: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-every…

I think your argument in quotes is a good one. :) Following a set of pre-defined instructions is not a creative act. It's not bad to build a puzzle, but I would argue that it's not…

I worked on Scratch for 6 years, in charge of the online community. We often encountered adult programmers who were surprised by what was possible in terms of complex projects with…

Here's an excellent podcast that goes in depth on the potential of enhanced geothermal of the same sort described above. Essentially they drill two holes and then frack the rock be…

Third enthusiastic Bangle JS supporter. The hardware is fine, but the ecosystem that comes with it is the best part. The excellent documentation makes it easy to make your own watc…

True. But if the rate of heat loss is low enough, then it doesn't much matter.

When cooking, the rate of heat needed to maintain the same temperature is exactly the rate at which the food is cooling. So heating up a pot and insulating it is roughly equivalent…

Shouldn't we make a plugin for SearX that learns from the results you click, so that the customization and machine learning is on the client side? That way search becomes a commodi…

Awesome! Made in my own university and I never even heard of it. Thanks for the tip!

Why don't we make browser plugins that automagically click through the popups and reject as many cookies as possible? It seems like this could be crowdsourced such that when the pl…

I haven't tried hacking the OS yet but I'm sure it's possible. Yep, I made a watch that tells time imprecisely, called "Imprecise word clock" aka "The No Shit Sherlock Clock" - htt…

Just got my Bangle.js 2 and like it very much. Also purchased a Watchy for the epaper display a few months back. Compared to Watchy, the espruino IDE and ecosystem for Bangle.js 2 …

Privacy is important, but I also care about the terrible quality of search results I get from nearly all the major providers these days. Couldn't an aggregator like SearX host a ma…

I purchased a Tuxedo laptop last summmer in order to support Linux only hardware vendors, but sadly it's been one of the worst computers - with the worst customer service - I've ev…

The instructable is here: https://www.instructables.com/id/Sideview-Mirror-for-Video-C...