The Problem with The Anxious Generation — and What the “Ban All Screens” Movement Gets Wrong About Education

There is a real crisis in children's mental health. I believe this because I see it daily in the schools I work in. The data supports it. The children themselves are telling us. On this point, Jonathan Haidt and I agree completely. Where I part ways — and where I think the current panic about technology in schools is leading us somewhere counterproductive — is…

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Teacher Side Hustles That Actually Fit Your Life (From Someone Who Gets It)

This post contains affiliate links. If you buy something through one of them, I earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. The national average teacher salary is $74,200. That sounds okay until you account for the fact that most teachers spend hundreds of dollars out of pocket on classroom supplies each year, work 50+ hour weeks, and bring a graduate degree to a job that still can't cover…

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You Can Just Print An Air Purifier

I don't have the time right now, but when the ol' dissertation is done, I can easily see a 3D printer getting heavy usage around these parts... 3D printers are one of the few pieces of technology in the last 30 years that are as revolutionary as they were pitched. It is easy to miss that fact, in part because 3D printing itself is a dorky little habit that produces a lot of embarrassing trinkets with visible layer lines, a technology…

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Artemis II Astronauts Witnessed 6 Meteorites Colliding With the Moon | WIRED

The shock and awe on the face of the folks at Mission Control as they chatted with the astronauts as this happened... During their flyby of the far side of the moon, the Artemis II astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft saw as many as six flashes emerging from the lunar surface. Surprisingly, they were witnessing small meteorites impacting the ground and producing brief flashes of light.…

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Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii | Bryan Keller’s Dev Blog

Since its launch in 2007, the Wii has seen several operating systems ported to it: Linux, NetBSD, and most-recently, Windows NT. Today, Mac OS X joins that list. Source: Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii | Bryan Keller’s Dev Blog

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The World’s Longest Outdoor Escalator Just Opened in China

More impressive infrastructure coming out of China... The longest outdoor escalator system in the world is now running in Wushan County, China. At nearly 3,000 feet long, it carries pedestrians up 800 feet in elevation—around the height of an 80-story skyscraper. The system is known as the “Goddess” escalator, and it’s made of 21 individual escalators, 8 elevators, 4 moving walkways and several pedestrian…

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AI doesn’t write well, but neither do most people

Giles Turnbull has some thoughts on AI-generated writing: First of all, I’ll come clean about where I stand, generally speaking: I’m an AI sceptic, especially on using AI for writing. I can see it being useful for other things - but that’s because I’m a writer, right? I see AI generated text and most of the time, I think it’s rubbish. It’s dull, it’s derivative, it always sounds like a thousand other things I’ve read…

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Artemis II Mobile Wallpapers

Fear not, true believers. We can take our fascination with all things Artemis II on our phones. NASA has made a dozen mobile wallpapers available. Here are a couple I enjoyed: Source: Artemis II Mobile Wallpapers - NASA

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Never Ending School Reforms..

From Larry Cuban.. As students, professionals, and parents, in the 20th and early 21st centuries, I, and most readers, have been the objects of these reforms, their implementers, or simply observers. School reform, then, is not something distant or far removed from our lives. We have experienced school reforms repeatedly. So, for me, school reforms have been as normal as breathing, eating, walking, reading, and writing posts for this blog.…

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Solar Eclipse from Dark of the Moon

art002e009301 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. We see a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk. The science community is investigating…

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