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William Hooke’s Blog

• Ed Lorenz chats up three caterpillars.
  (Exercising a smidgen of creative license) In 1961, Ed Lorenz went for a brief walk on the MIT campus while waiting for the computer to run a recalculation. He happened to spot three caterpillars making their way across the quad. … Continue reading →
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• Surviving the Plastocene.
  Megatherium – the giant sloth – failed to survive the Pleistocene. Can we do a better job navigating the Plastocene? The bar might seem low – but the stakes are high, and, fact is, only time will tell. Some of … Continue reading →
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• Teaching global warming? Here’s help.
  “In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.” ― Lee Iacocca “Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.” ― Jacques … Continue reading →
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