Potions For Muggles

This past weekend, I notched my fifth ADOM win with a Drakeling Elementalist who is now #2 on the high-score list. In preparation for to...

I am reading about the extraordinary math and science contributions of John von Neumann in Ananyo Bhattacharya’s book The Man from the F...

I stumbled across an interesting blog post connecting Ross Ashby’s principles of cybernetics to how one designs questions to probe stud...

To err is human. To admit to erring… well, that’s difficult. Like most people, I don’t like the feeling of realizing that I’m wrong. I a...

The idea that Planet Earth is rare and special for being able to host life has a very readable book-length argument, Rare Earth by Brow...

I forgot to write last Fall’s First Week edition (so here’s the one from 2024 ), probably because I was super-busy teaching two sections...

I’d read several papers by Richard Mayer on the dual-coding model: Learners have two channels for processing incoming information, verba...