TheRandomWalk
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TheRandomWalk
@mcladams.bsky.social
Critic. Engineer. Father. Socialist. Read science fiction, listen to techno and dance in space.
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Morrison govt shelled out more than $11,000 a day in taxpayer funds on flights Mathias Cormann spent a month crisscrossing Europe & South America to drum up support for his bid to lead OECD

Flights aboard a RAAF orce special purpose aircraft over the course of 34 days cost a total of $380,000
December 9, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Thank you Neal. I'm now a bit angry at the wasted minds but also found the excellent podcast series features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/
Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on...
features.apmreports.org
January 2, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Nice. I still remember when superconductors broke the liquid nitrogen barrier, so exciting.

It could be however that we live in a universe where no possible combination of matter, energy, geometry and/or consciousness has Tc~ 273K.
December 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM