Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced blockchain templates for Ethereum and Hyperledger Fabric, providing a fast and easy way to create and deploy secure blockchain networks with open source frameworks, the company announced on its website.

Terry Elliott Be afraid. Very afraid. Bezos might just end up being a trillionaire with this tech. Or he might just blow up. Who knows? Very messy possibilities.

UPENN Almanac – Mark Liberman

In the hit post-apocalyptic movie A Quiet Place there is a touching scene where the mother is home-schooling her son. He is being drilled in numeracy; but on a whiteboard she has written out the first quatrain of Shakespeare’s ‘ Shall I Compare…

Terry Elliott Astonishing, memories unheard in a quiet place. Deaf Poets Society. Listening to a different kind of meter. Short essays like this make my day. Absolutely make my day.Maybe yours, too. Yes, I bloody well think so.

E. coli outbreaks hospitalize people and cause food recalls pretty much annually in the United States. This year is no different. Obviously some E. coli can be deadly for people. But not all strains of these bacteria make you sick. In fact, you…

Terry Elliott I have heard over and over the word ‘messy’ used to describe the microbiome, the gut ecosystem. Listening to Tim Harford’s book, ‘Messy’ which he begins with the most amazing messy story behind Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Koln concert: https://goo.gl/srkgCi

Teacher strikes are generating a healthy focus on how far public education funding has fallen over the past decade. The full explanation, however, goes beyond basic funding cuts. It involves systematic advantages in terms of funding, students and…

Terry Elliott The rich get richer and the poor languish:’Previously, states had provided vouchers only for low-income students. But new voucher programs made them available to wealthy students as well, even those who already had access to excellent public schools.’

Last June, Alice Procter started running free gallery tours. She had answered a call-out from Antiuniversity, a project that helps organise radical educational events, and wanted to try out an idea. Her plan was to take people through museums…

Terry Elliott It’s all about the narrative. Who controls the tiller? Sometimes it is a dead hand from a long time passed but resurrected. Zombie museums. We all have them.

New York’s Museum of Modern Art is under siege. Well, a virtual siege, at least. A group of renegade artists has co-opted the brightly-lit Jackson Pollock gallery on the museum’s fifth floor, turning it into their personal augmented reality…

Terry Elliott Just turn this into a fill in the blank exercise:AR is transforming ______________. Learning?Commerce?Employment?Training? Have at it hoss, then let me know what you have discovered.I think this is personal futurism & feedforwarding that is worth doing.

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1. Why We Must Disestablish School I owe my interest in public education to Everett Reimer. Until we first met in Puerto Rico in 1958, I had never questioned the value of extending obligatory schooling to all people. Together we have come to…

Terry Elliott ‘The current search 4 new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse:educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring.’