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Solarpunk for engineers

A Brighter Future Ahead There is a socially fair and bright green future that embraces technology. A fantasy that you can aspire too with all of the making and none of the guilt. Sometimes it might seem like all is … Continue reading

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Climate Calling Engineers

Move Fast and Fix Things The sixth synthesis report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is clear: โ€œHuman activities, principally through emissions of greenhouse gases, have unequivocally caused global warming.โ€ What are we going to do about it? … Continue reading

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White Rabbit into White Rabbit

A recording of me singing White rabbit (Jefferson Airplane) patched into our White Rabbit deep spatial effects module. We made the White Rabbit in creative collaboration with Error Instruments

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The Gift of Giving

Patagonia just turned the entire profit of their company into a foundation to protect the earth. Bill Gates has been giving almost all of his money away and runs the Giving Pledge for other billionaires that feel their wealth is unevenly distributed. GiveWell has … Continue reading

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PALO Player Actions with a Learning Objective

One challenge that researching games has, is how to describe game content and especially capturing ongoing psychological processes in a way that makes them comparable. We tried to capture gaming behaviour in Blooms taxonomy which is a popular tool for … Continue reading

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I Solemnly Swear: Code of Ethics

Codes of conduct or ethical codes exist in many professions. Engineers can also commit themselves to being good. Engineering Ethics The first code of ethics for engineers is the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer โ€” written by Rudyard Kipling in … Continue reading

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