In these times everyone needs comfort and would welcome a hand to hold.
Chapter 1. Climate
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| 2024 West Coast USA 2025 |
Chapter 2 Health Care
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| Green World .. Mostly |
Chapter 3 Aging
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| Brain network peaks @ 32 |
Chapter 4 Wars and Rumors of War
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| Oh, and Nigeria, and Greenland and ... |
Chapter 5 Mass Shootings since Sandy Hook
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| The last 12 years |
Chapter 6 Cost of Living
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| Don't believe the upside down chart |
Chapter 7 Gerrymandering
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| Election corruption |
Chapter 8 Immigration
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| Everyone (except Native Americans) in the US has immigrant ancestors |
Chapter 9 Vanity
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| Gilding the lily |
Chapter 10 Cruelty
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| 600,000 preventable deaths - and counting |
Chapter 11 Irrational Exuberance
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| AI. Wait for it. Pop |
Chapter 12 Transparency
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| Oy! |
Chapter 13 Social Media
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| Don’t knee jerk react to what you read/view. Verify. Verify. Verify. And don’t be a spreader. |
Epilog
Copyright © 2026 Dave Hoplin
Maybe these pictures will help the uneducated that the dear leader claims to love. And then, probably not.
ReplyDeleteI didn't find links to articles providing more detail than the graphics give; maybe I just clicked wrong. Can you point me to where the brain changes at age 9 are discussed? I'm working with some 3rd graders for math enrichment and would be interested to know what I might be overlooking as the kids start to blossom. These kids sure act like kindergartners some of the time, and maybe I can tap better into their emerging selves. We worked on multiplication tables before Christmas and after the winter break it was like they'd never seen 6x8 before.
ReplyDeleteNBC News with an embedded ref to the science. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/human-brains-5-epochs-development-rcna245663
DeleteNo surprise. In the words of Huck Finn "he can recite up to six times seven is thirty-five"
DeleteHah. With the fad over 6-7, I had at least hoped to cement into their memories the number 42 that I would demand of them each time they started juggling their hands like in the video - but alas. The hand gestures are all they retain.
ReplyDeleteEntering this rabbit hole looks fascinating. A link or two deep, I encountered terms like eigenmode, which made me think that a background in Physics or Engineering would provide context for a useful new way of thinking. Unfortunately: no. Not the articles I looked at anyway - or maybe my connectivity is too far into the decline phase. This line of inquiry doesn't seem to be particularly new, and so they have established their jargon and don't need to define terms like eigendecomposition, so I'll have to dig deeper to learn whether the terms they use are interconnected like eigenvectors and eigenvalues were for my younger self. Since my interest is in knowing how or whether to adjust the material I bring to my 9-year olds, and these articles seem to be about mapping the brain (to account for behavior changes that have long been observed by social science), I might end the descent here.
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