In a Strange Land

Travels in virtual worlds with an eye to the academic, inspiring, even inane.

Friday, October 2, 2026

How to Explain AI to a Doomer

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Quite often, when someone who is not an academic discovers that I research AI in education, they say that AI scares them.  Fair enough, but ...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

9/11 Memory: When We Lost the Narrative

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Long ago, a world ago really, I and an employee of Reynolds Aluminum refurbished old computers, mostly pre-iMac Apple product, and gave them...
Friday, August 7, 2026

Von Braun's Lost Ideas

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At this time of a renewed Space Race with China, to get to the Moon's South Pole, we might want to look backward a bit. In the late 50s ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

TLDR: The Coming Age of Aliteracy

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For many years, a good deal of digital ink has been spilled about the end of reading. Lately, however, I found compelling the statistics in ...
Monday, May 25, 2026

Your New Car is Watching You: Two Weeks in a Rolling Computer

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A while back at my Tractorpunk blog, I wrote about why we should choose, if we can, to buy an older vehicle and learn to make our own repair...
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