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"What coding really teaches children": theglobeandmail.com/opinion/โฆ
Ontario's adding programming in primary schools. The @globeandmail asked my thoughts. Le voila!
tl;dr -- I'm divided. Coding can be joyful, maddening, creative, so ๐ ๐ฆ๐ธ. Adding to teacher load is ๐ though (1/2)
Sound science will touch every aspect of what the Biden Administration doesโfrom new policy, to addressing social inequality, to the implications of new technologies.
As Deputy Director for Science and Society, inclusive and trustworthy science will have a place in government.
Finally started reading @pomeranian99's (sure-to-be wonderful) "Coders," and am absolutely taken with this description of the pathology common among lifelong programmers: "It's a boundless, nigh masochistic ability to endure brutal, grinding frustration."
*chef's kiss*
Some Trump supporters have tried claiming the attack on the Capitol was actually "antifa", but they've been running into a problem: Actual Trump supporters who are eagerly and excitedly claiming credit for it theatlantic.com/technology/aโฆ
So, the FBI investigated @doctorow over ... a blog post that linked to a Popular Mechanics piece about the physics of toppling statues: pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hโฆ
WhatEVER is/was going on here?
Cory suspects some troll filed a complaint. But why would the FBI would *act* on it?
A law to protect human footprints on the moon the way we protect heritage sites: astronomy.com/news/2021/01/nโฆ
A weird one, this. It'd only affect US firms, yet countries worldwide are heading to the moon's surface; and the US also never signed the Moon Treaty