Python Bounties in the Glades
It’s July. The swamp is breathing. And so are the hunters.
Hundreds of them flooded into the Everglades on July 10 for the annual Florida...
We lost most of the Knight’s Tale
The error propagation of ink and paper
Before the printing press? Copying by hand. Always by hand. Every single scribe made a mistake. Or maybe...
The Chromebook Cap
We bought them. All of them.
For the last decade, US K-12 districts went full-speed with one-to-one devices. The logic was sound, really. You hand...
Stop Lying On Your Resume (Because You Have No Experience)
Blank page. Staring back. You know the drill. Finals are gone. Caps off. Now comes the part nobody tells you about during orientation: actually...
The Thylacine isn’t just a zombie project. It’s a governance failure waiting to be...
Tasmanian tigers haven’t been around since 1936 🦎
European settlers blamed them for killing sheep. They hunted them until they were gone. A mix of...
The Alps didn’t hate Hannibal as much as we thought
History loves a good tragedy. Hannibal crossing the Alps is one.
It was 218 BCE. He brought thirty-seven war elephants with him. Maybe thirty-eight,...
The 31-Year-Old Trying to Row to Hawaii Alone
Kelsey Pfendler wants to break a record. A big one. She aims to be the youngest woman to solo row from California to Hawaii....
Politics replaces expertise in new White House grant rules
Thursday dropped a 412-page bomb. The White House released draft regulations. If they pass, political appointees get the final say. On every federal research...
Pigeon Liver Acts as Internal Compass
The Organ in the Gut
Decades of confusion. That is the scientific record on bird navigation. We knew pigeons used Earth’s magnetic field to fly...
Rain washes trash in, sharks follow
48 hours. One dead twelve-year-old boy. Four people bitten by sharks along Australia’s east coat last January. The sequence was brutal, yes, but it...
The DOJ Hit Pause On Digital Access. Good Luck With That.
Schools weren’t ready. The deadline arrived with a clock ticking down, loud and unkind. They were simply unprepared.
For decades, federal disability law said local...
NYC Bracing for Heat That Hasn’t Hit in Over a Decade
100 degrees.
Maybe more.
New York City is set to smash past the 100-degree mark (about 38°C) this week. It would be the first time we’ve...
Pigeons Prove Stability Is Boring
You walk down the street. Pigeons strut. They flutter. They seem chaotic. But maybe the chaos is a feature not a bug. New research...
Lead with Shield and Sword: Real Talk on Educational Change
By: Jennifer D. Klein (Excerpted from Taming the Turbulence in Educational leadership )
Fall 2023. I started calling educational leaders globally. Sixty-seven voices. The result?...
That interstellar comet is older than your dog’s dog’s ancestor
Most of us assume the solar system is ancient. It isn't, really.
Comet 3I/ATlas proved it during its brief, brilliant flyby last summer. Only the...
Cosmologists Hit A Nerve
The universe doesn't care if you look up or down. It's the same everywhere. That is the working assumption of nearly every cosmologist on...
Six Roles for an AI-Ready Student
On June 28. The International Society for Transforming Education dropped a bigger picture. You probably know their news side. EdSurge. That’s their editorial arm,...
Stop Calling That Shooting Star a Star
You see the streak. Flash. Gone.
Ever wonder what it was? Not a star. Stars don't do that. You just watched the finale of a...
Digital dust
May was the month a federal judge told the White House to cut it out.
They have to comply with the Presidential Records Act. Passed...
The Trust Before The Plan
Textbooks miss the hard part.
The old way is broken. The new way? Unproven.
Teachers are grinding, exhausted, feeling ineffective. Then comes the mandate. It feels...
