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An Euclidean coincidence
FYI, this is a somewhat pointless blog post around a somewhat funny coincidence that popped into my life the other…
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Krishnamurti & Dewey in the Metaverse
I am writing a paper with Marina Basu about how John Dewey’s and Jiddu Krishnamurti’s philosophies of education and their…
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Tell me a story: Delightful design in an airport
“Design doesn’t need to be delightful for it to work, but that’s like saying food doesn’t need to be tasty…
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Learning styles in the classroom? What BS! (But Bing Chat doesn’t care.)
One of the most enduring myths in education is that of learning styles. I had written about it back in…
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ChatGPT3 writes a Mathematical Proof (in verse)
Many years ago I got interested in writing poetry about mathematics (all archived on my Math-Poetry page). Just to be…
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On merging with our technologies (Unpacking McLuhan 4/3)
This is the fourth of what was supposed to be a three post-series about how media influence our thinking. The…
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Truth of fact and feeling: Unpacking McLuhan (2/3)
This is the second of three blog posts about how media influence our thinking. The first post, uses the invention…
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The futures of higher ed with Phoebe Wagner
The Center for Science and the Imagination at ASU runs a series of short stories and virtual gatherings that explore…
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The fictions we create (& how they create us)
The fictions we create (& how they create us) This is a story about a multi-year quest and its resolution…
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Goodbye 2020 (whew), welcome 2021
2020 has been a heck of a year… and maybe in hindsight (hindsight, of course, being 2020) it will all…
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Us in Flux: A conversation with Sarah Pinsker
The Center for Science and the Imagination at ASU has a new series called Us in Flux. Every two weeks…
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Reflections
– afternoon walklingering on the shore linetime for reflection – – Reflections © Punya Mishra. All photos taken with my…
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Designing learning futures through reflective practice: 2 of 2
This is the second of two posts on the topic of bringing principled innovation practices to designing learning futures. In…
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Fibonacci’s Poem
Fibonacci’s PoemDecember 10, 2019 (!)OneWordIt startsSlow but sureExpanding out numerically, adding moreMarching forward, doing the math, not asking why Knowing…
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A cosmologist worries (about infinity)
A cosmologist worries (about infinity)December 2019 They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars–on stars where no human race…
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Happy Thanksgiving
A new design for my favorite holiday of the year. See animated version below. Enjoy Previous designs can be found…
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Perfect Vacuum (OR who wrote this poem?)
Note (November 16, 2024): At the bottom of this post are some variants of the original poem, as re-interpreted by…
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4 AM: A poem
Note: This poem was lightly edited March 10, 2025. 4 AMJuly 17, 2019 The stupid smoke detectorsBeep IncessantlyThere are two…
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Meta Poetry: I and II
This sentence refers to itself. This sentence declares that this blog post is about 2 poems I wrote recently. Both…
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Creativity is greatly valued: A poem
Creativity is greatly valuedCreativity is greatly valued For his sharpness His ability to look beyond The surface And willingness…
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Pi(e) day, 2019
A design created in celebration of Pi-day, 2019. (More context about the day here and more about the number itself…
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Aesthetics & STEM education: A new framework
I have always been intrigued by the nature and role of the aesthetic experience in learning. A few members of…
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Happy New Year (and a new illusory video)
Since 2008 we have been creating short videos to welcome in the New Year. These videos, created on a shoe-string…
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Ambigrams & Mathematics at HYSA
The Gary K. Herberger Young Scholars Academy (HYSA) is a school designed for highly gifted students in grades 7-12 affiliated with…
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Collaborative Haiku
A silent white boardScribble a first line, and waitEmergent haiku. Last Friday, goofing off between meetings, I scribbled one line,…
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Of raindrops and dying flowers
The rainfall in June –the poems I’ve pasted to wallspeel off, but leave traces.~ Basho All photos taken with my…
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Arizona in black & white
Over the past two years in Arizona I have had the opportunity to indulge in my love for photography. Recently…
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Fractals, ambigrams & more
Photo & and design © Punya Mishra.The photo of bubbles was taken with cell phone camera (equipped with a macro…
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Paradoxes, illusions & visual wordplay
Figure 1: Eye-llusion Over the past few months I have been somewhat obsessed with visual illusions, ambiguous images, impossible figures…
