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Asa Jomard
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Biomimicry Specialist, Cognitive Developmental Scientist, Environmentalist
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What Babies Know That AI Doesn’t — Yet
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What Babies Know That AI Doesn’t — Yet
The infant brain knows more than we thought, sooner than we thought, and via mechanisms more surprising than our best theories predicted
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February 15, 2026 at 9:31 AM
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Why Teaching Kids “Thinking Techniques” Backfires in the Age of AI
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Why Teaching Kids “Thinking Techniques” Backfires in the Age of AI
And what actually builds real thinking skills instead
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February 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM
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Unlocking Learning Potential
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Unlocking Learning Potential
How Metacognition Can Transform Education for Learners on the Autistic Spectrum
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January 25, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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The Thinking Skills We Need for an AI Age
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The Thinking Skills We Need for an AI Age
Part 2: Thinking Better When Machines Can Think for You
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January 21, 2026 at 7:41 AM
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Where AI Might Still Belong
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Where AI Might Still Belong
Stewardship, Not Decision in a Fragile Democracy
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January 15, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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The Zebra in the Machine: Unlocking Nature’s 8-Million-Species Secret.

If a doctor could only see one-fifth of your body, could they really treat you? 🩺

This is the exact dilemma we face with Earth’s biodiversity.

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The Zebra in the Machine: Unlocking Nature’s 8-Million-Species Secret.
We've catalogued just 2 million of Earth's estimated 10 million species. AI is revealing what was always there.
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January 10, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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Screens or Scripts?
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Screens or Scripts?
The Nordic Great Divide: Finland’s AI Integration vs. Denmark’s Digital Retreat
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January 8, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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The Map and the Compass
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The Map and the Compass
Why Task Codes define better behaviour — and metacognitive AI makes it navigable
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January 4, 2026 at 7:38 AM
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An Ethical Compass for Biomimicry Inventors in an AI Age
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An Ethical Compass for Biomimicry Inventors in an AI Age
If nature is our teacher, how do we show respect in the way we invent?
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December 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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The Digital Mycelium
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The Digital Mycelium
Responsibility in the Age of Accelerated Biomimicry
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December 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Healthspan Beyond Medicine
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Healthspan Beyond Medicine
Physical, Cognitive, and Psychological Integration
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December 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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Beyond the Spider’s Silk
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Beyond the Spider’s Silk
the web biomimicry keeps forgetting
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December 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Imagination Is Not a Luxury
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Imagination Is Not a Luxury
Why climate action fails without a vision of life beyond collapse
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December 18, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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The Shadow of Jagged Intelligence
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The Shadow of Jagged Intelligence
Why the next leap in AI isn’t about more data, but the very human ability to think about thinking.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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What Japanese Philosophy Teaches Us About Living With Nature
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What Japanese Philosophy Teaches Us About Living With Nature
Welcome to Nature's Infinite Treasure Hunt
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December 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Why I'm Setting Intentions, Not Goals, for 2026 thinkdivebiomimicry.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/w...
Why I’m Setting Intentions, Not Goals, for 2026
2025 was supposed to be my year of writing—children’s stories about nature, biomimicry and climate change. These weren’t just random projects; they were meant to be part of a series I&#…
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December 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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IRA List for 2026
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IRA List for 2026
Interesting Reading Areas
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December 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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What We Owe the Pre-Ill
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What We Owe the Pre-Ill
Building Better Predictive Medicine
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December 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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The 68% Problem:
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The 68% Problem:
Living in Medicine's Predictive Future
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December 12, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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When Judgment Becomes Confirmation: Medicine in 2026 and the Invisible Handover of Clinical Reasoning to AI
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When Judgment Becomes Confirmation: Medicine in 2026 and the Invisible Handover of Clinical Reasoning to AI
A Note on Why I’m Beginning the Series Here
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December 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Making It Work: Practical Implementation and Common Challenges
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Making It Work: Practical Implementation and Common Challenges
This is Part 3 of our series on using AI in homeschools.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of AI: A Homeschool Metacognition Playbook
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Raising Independent Thinkers in the Age of AI: A Homeschool Metacognition Playbook
In our previous post, we explored why metacognition—the ability to think about your own thinking—is the most critical survival skill of the AI era, and why homeschooling offers a rare environment in w...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Above the Threshold: Training the Metacognitive Skills That Make Humans Valuable in the Age of AI
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Above the Threshold: Training the Metacognitive Skills That Make Humans Valuable in the Age of AI
Rebuilding Education Around Metacognition in the AI Era
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December 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Two Windows on Learning:
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Two Windows on Learning:
What AI and Nature Reveal About How We Think
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November 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Metacognition as Power: Who Gets to Shape How AI Shapes Our Thinking?
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Metacognition as Power: Who Gets to Shape How AI Shapes Our Thinking?
When our tools start thinking with us, the real question is who’s still doing the thinking.
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October 30, 2025 at 5:49 PM