Periodic Table Regions xkcd.com/2913

With the eclipse approaching in less than a week, over half of U.S. cities along the eclipse's path are fully booked for the night of April 7th according to data from AirDNA

The final xscore will be 🤣

#AFLCrowsPower Final xScores: ADEL 76 from expected 59.7 (+2 rushed) PORT 46 from expected 68.8 (+2 rushed)

AI detection in school is a losing game. AI detectors have high flaw positives & teacher intuition seems to work even worse: “Here we show in two experimental studies that novice and experienced teachers could not identify texts generated by ChatGPT among student-written texts.”

The ABC analyses the headshots and hairstyles of all AFL players in the 2024 season to definitively answer: is the mullet back? ab.co/3QWkBWu

What an awesome #NoticeWonder prompt!

What’s happening with artificial intelligence jobs? My speech to the ABS-RBA Human Capital Conference, based on joint research with Matt Cowgill ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/andr… #auspol #ausecon #ai

The Economist: "China has become a scientific superpower" Rare for me - maybe even unprecedented - to praise the Economist but this might be the seminal article on the current status of China's scientific might. Let's take a look 🧵 economist.com/science-and-te…

Again, much of the conflict about math pedagogy is a disagreement about: a) whether math is a set of secret codes or something accessible on a concrete, sensory level. b) whether students have valuable knowledge to build on or not. This all gets easier if you get that.

Electric vs Gas xkcd.com/2948

“But sir, I only used AI a little bit. The Turnitin checker must have turned up another false positive.” The actual submitted work:

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President Venn Diagram xkcd.com/2962

A short summary of my basic principles of behaviour management. Feel free to share to anyone who might find it useful.

this will be one of my favorite moments ever not just because it secured gold. nor because of the difficulty. because he is the only person on earth who not passing to one of these two, wide open, is acceptable.

An interesting chart on the age distribution of athletes at the Paris Olympics. Youngest- Skateboarding, gymnastics Oldest- Equestrian, Triathlon It's kind of wild how young swimming skews compared to its close athletic cousins (track, triathlon, cycling)

Just fed the text of a book—Student Assessment, co-authored with Nancy Frey and Doug Fisher—into Google's Notebook LM (HT Ethan Mollick) and it produced a ten-minute podcast as well as a list of FAQs and a study guide. As Ethan says, "Seriously, just listen": bit.ly/47EtlYf

NEW: IT'S NOT JUST THE UK! 🟢The UK is 14th OECD country to become coal-free. 🟢OECD coal power falls to less than HALF of its peak in 2007. 🟢All but 5 OECD countries have seen falls of at least 30% from peak coal power (lovely dataviz from Chelsea Bruce-Lockhart) 🧵

This perspective is even more insane.