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A journalist asked him, “Professor Feynman, can you explain — in just a couple of minutes — what you won the #nobelprize for?” Feynman apparently replied, “Listen, buddy, if I could explain it in a couple of minutes, it wouldn’t be worth the Nobel Prize.” https://archive.ph/iD1Tn
The OER Knowledge Cloud – a curated database and repository to identify, collect, preserve and disseminate documents related to open educational resources. There are currently 2807 published records by 4731 authors from 990 sources #OpenEd24 https://www.oerknowledgecloud.org/
a collaboration to combat the increasing problem of unsourced, poorly-written #AI generated content on #Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup
Sound & Music
… join the car crash set … #remix #wfmu https://wfmu.org/archiveplayer/?show=144850&archive=259860&starttime=2:39:36
Attended a wicked #nobro show with my daughter in #halifax this weekend https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6514062
#podcast #audiodrama Inspired by Sinclair Lewis’ dystopian novel, It Can’t Happen Here, Dresser offers a glimpse of what could happen after the 2024 election if fascism creeps into the USA. Told through the voices of a fragmenting American family, It Happened Here 2024 describes a country that still has Netflix and free two-day delivery, where the only thing lost is freedom. https://www.ithappenedhere2024.com/2402472/about
Politics & Economics
“Students in the survey also questioned the seamlessness of the systems. Clinton-Lisell said many students feel that because publishers are the ones creating the exercises, professors end up not being knowledgeable about the problems their students are working on or they are unable to help troubleshoot technical issues that might come up.” https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/64833/why-are-students-paying-fees-to-access-homework-assignments
1. Physics cannot be wished away.
2. #climatechange invites a game of weighted choices.
3. #climatechange wields the energy of atomic bombs.
5. Our slowness to adapt incurs tremendous future costs.
4. Extreme storms kill slowly.
6. Every event reveals another fragility.
7. The #climate crisis grows exponentially.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/10/07/Future-Named-Helene/