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Big Spiral History, Year 1
Starting on September 7, our little conspiracy will be launching the first piece of our overarching Egan education: Big Spiral History, Year 1. In brief:
Big Spiral History, Year 1 is 144 carefully-chosen events from big history, told as c...
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Our Egan homeschooling workshop series
Thanks for being a paid subscriber! With this, you gain access to the 10-session series of “Egan homeschooling” workshops I did in the summer of 2025. After the first, big-idea workshop, each shows ho...
Could internet debate be solved?
What would it take to “solve” debate?
A while back, Scott Alexander wrote that he gets pitched on schemes to solve debate:
Astral Codex Ten
Your Attempt To Solve Debate Will Not Work
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I’m writing a response to Scott’s recent essay about why attempts to solve debates won’t work — provocatively titled
Numbers against reality: The quest for glory
Where does our math come from?
Around 600 BCE there was an explosion in ancient Greece, and we’ve been trying to re-create it ever since.
Last week we talked about the roots of Greek math: wandering Babylonian priests sharing riddles a...
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Father, teacher, and inveterate book-reader living in Rochester, Minnesota. Founder of scienceisWEIRD.com; draws pictures of dinosaurs and thinks through new models to education in my spare time. Winner of the 2023 ACX book review contest.
Reader of books and other texts. Home educator. Former academic. Work in progress.
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