#Experiment

These days, I get questions from hundreds of people asking me to recommend a crop they should plant on their farm.Having thought about this very well over the last few
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As more pixel artists enter the #NFT space, here’s a thread on #pixelart. Collectors, this might be of interest to you. Pixel artists who are not yet in the space,
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I wrote a column about what this grand experiment in online learning means for the future: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/09/business/online-learning-virus.html 1/x Coronavirus will accelerate the use of high-quality online lecture material. Online
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Let's assume the transporter functions, as it is inconsistently described, by actually physically beaming the stuff of you -- the matter of your body, converted to energy -- which is
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Kicking around different ways of thinking about scientific infrastructure: *A journal article is a body of structured knowledge. *It's used by getting the info you need back out of it.*Let's
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How to create a mysterious personality~Thread~ Mystery is one of the most powerful social qualities anyone can develop.Mystery draws attention, but most advice on how to be mysterious is either
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It is often suggested that one should teach Euclidean geometry in order to introduce children to the notion of proof. Today my children learnt a huge amount about proof in
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K-5 Family #ScienceAtHome for plant growth https://tinyurl.com/AtHomeScience-Seeds Part 1 Is a bean a seed?Pt 2 Learn about beans. Justify predictions.Pt 3 What do plants need? Design experiment.Pt 4 Engineer a
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I have some defenders of status-quo music theory pedagogy following me, so to you, I offer a thought experiment. Imagine that I run a travel agency. Any time anyone wants
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What makes for successful ‘free range’/remote working across diff locations? How is it different in crisis?At 14:30 BST I’m hosting a Twitter ‘phone-in’ with @tomwillmot of @humanmadeltd discussing this, sharing
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It’s not true that there’s nothing new under the sun; there are many new things, it’s just that the old, human things are still with us, and always will be
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A thread of appreciation and reassurance. Trigger mention: AssaultIt's nothing graphic or even describing, it's only the mention of it briefly. This thread is for everyone, especially if you are
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How to Utilize Your 20'sYour 20's are probably the most important decade of your lifeYou can either use it to set you up for life, or dig yourself into a
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Musicians. It's going to be hard to let go of the idea of what an album is 'worth' that we've inherited from the physical media age. But if you want
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I think it's fair to respond a bit more calmly than I did yesterday to everything that happened, and I'm going to write a short thread, and then be done
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(1/8) Unpopular opinion: Hybrid learning model is extremely manageable and so beneficial. In a normal year, we are planning for each and every day. In a hybrid model, you are
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