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This is one fast coup! Congrats, Putin! You won

This is the war on Science. Next comes the war on Education. The obliteration of democracy comes next. If you imagine Trump gives up this level of power without bloodshed in the st…

And Facebook and X are not advocacy organizations vehemently pushing an agenda? The fact that there is an organization looking to speak for teenagers and their rights to privacy in…

Elections have consequences

I see the Disrupt movement has matured. Too bad the plan all along was to stick someone else with the externalities.

OLWEUS most likely

The future iterations of this are purely terrifying. This is so elegantly demonstrated by the Oscar Nominated short film “Please Hold” from 2022. Picked up by mistake by a roving p…

The fact that Tiktok wholesale bought the user base for musical.ly, largely preteen children, and converted them to an entirely different app meant to addict them and harvest their…

So as someone who teaches robotics to middle school Students, FIRST lego is still the best program for kids. If you would like to learn CAD, EE, 3D printing, and microcontrollers, …

From all available data and observations, the mean earth temperature is rapidly warming and causing significant changes to the amplitude of storms and weather events. Or, in the wo…

Chief Seattle had it right all along it seems[0]. We should have been aggressive about considering the impact of technology on the next seven generations. It’s not too late to star…

As if anyone had a choice about climate change. Cigarettes, oxy, sugar, and carbon are all alike in that their detrimental effects were hidden, downplayed, or denied for decades. N…

This is one of the most flawed arguments that get made. I’ve been to many places in North America and Europe. Everywhere you go, direct sunlight above 65F is nearly unbearable. Air…

Middle School educator here. I can assure you that your daughters will not be alone when it comes to a moratorium on social media. However, the girls they may very well want to be …

Catan or DND has a similar competitive yet low stakes vibe. Here’s my secret: I host a night about once every two months and I bake soft pretzel bites with varying dipping sauces. …

This is a great project by CMU; however, it is designed for high school students specifically. An analogue to this would be Code.org. It is not related to their undergraduate CS cu…

Cool. They’ll bounce back fast after this mass extinction that’s happening right now. That is, unless humans succeed in terraforming Earth into a Mars clone. Then all life is screw…

The slow moving disaster that is the Colorado River is a particularly American disaster. The manifest destiny mindset coming to an abrupt end. In the book Cadillac Desert Marc Reis…

Certainly you are right. If all the golf courses are closed and agriculture is transitioned to more stable locales, the Southwest would have a fighting chance. However, when you ta…

Anthropogenic warming is increasing at a non-linear rate. If you are not preparing practically, financially, and emotionally for this fact, you are being myopic. I still hold out h…

Ah, sad to hear it. As much as he was shackled to the 60s, some of his more recent work [0] was fascinating. For someone who fell backwards into fame, he was devoted to his art unt…

I used to work on a coffee plantation of about 1000 trees in Kona. The owners ran a very lean operation. Coffee doesn’t require much maintenance outside of picking season. They had…

They need to develop strong boundaries against predatory tech. FAANG et al are narcissistic and uncaring towards an entire global generation of children. You teach them to stay awa…

I strongly recommend this [0] lecture by Abraham Maslow on the nature of purpose. TLDR: Puepose is the defining motivation behind self-actualization. [0]: https://www.esalen.org/po…

Buy an EV3 kit (maybe at a reduced cost) and flash micropython onto the brick.