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Three Indie Science Project Ideas
People often have a sense that all the low-hanging scientific fruit has been picked, or that all the fruit that’s left can only be picked by huge teams with lots of funding. But in fact, there are still lots of projects that are just the right scale for Indie Science. Good ideas too — the…
Links for September 2026
The superior japanese sunscreen that the FDA doesn’t allow for no reason (per Aaron Bergman) explore the entire US with 1-meter 3D LiDAR data H.G. Wells makes predictions from 1903 about the “house of the future”: Within, plumbing, new means of lighting, new means of communication between one part of a building and another, lifts…
Cybernetics and Dynamics
When we talk about the paradigm for psychology described in The Mind in the Wheel, we often use the word cybernetic. Cybernetics refers to the study of negative feedback loops and control systems, things that function like thermostats to keep values at certain levels or a signal on one side of some threshold — keeping…
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