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Yeah, and it's really worth checking out https://dynamicland.org/ , because Bret Victor is actually doing this -- slash pointing the way to what such a world could look like. It ju…

This was posted when it came out here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45802029 . It generated a lot of comments -- more heat than light, possibly -- and I wonder if instead o…

I’ve long thought that the Word of the Day was a wasted genre. The goal should be to give you words you can use; to enrich your understanding of words you already know; or at least…

I thought the HN crowd would appreciate this story I wrote about the keeper of a university's lab animals. In reporting articles about science, and being a biology-watcher generall…