Ian Moules
@ianmoules.bsky.social
Lover of literature, music, history, politics, walking through London and tax. Guitar learner.
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It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
November 20, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's time to remove laptops from classrooms.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
24 experiments: Students learn more and get better grades after taking notes by hand than typing. It's not just because they're less distracted—writing enables deeper processing and more images.
The pen is mightier than the keyboard.
You are a graduate student. You have a cutting-edge theory and are asked to present it. It is your first such presentation. It's OK, the audience only includes: Einstein, Pauli and von Neumann.
That was Richard Feynman's experience in early 1941.
That was Richard Feynman's experience in early 1941.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
You are a graduate student. You have a cutting-edge theory and are asked to present it. It is your first such presentation. It's OK, the audience only includes: Einstein, Pauli and von Neumann.
That was Richard Feynman's experience in early 1941.
That was Richard Feynman's experience in early 1941.
100% agree
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
100% agree
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Budget time saving pro-tip: anyone whose argument amounts to go “The fiscal mess is largely due to spending money on (people and things I don’t like) and can be solved by raising taxes on (people and things I don’t like)” is not a serious person and their views can be ignored.
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Budget time saving pro-tip: anyone whose argument amounts to go “The fiscal mess is largely due to spending money on (people and things I don’t like) and can be solved by raising taxes on (people and things I don’t like)” is not a serious person and their views can be ignored.
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48 years to the daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
November 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
48 years to the daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
Quote of the week. Scene: The Alhambra, Granada. Tourist to friend: They keep talking about Muslims a lot.
October 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Quote of the week. Scene: The Alhambra, Granada. Tourist to friend: They keep talking about Muslims a lot.
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October 15, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt
October 10, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt
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This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"
Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.
Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.
October 8, 2025 at 10:52 AM
This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"
Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.
Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.
I am late re #tonyharrison death. But these lines from Long Distance still chill me
I believe life ends with death, and that is all.
You haven't both gone shopping; just the same,
in my new black leather phone book there's your name
and the disconnected number I still call.
I believe life ends with death, and that is all.
You haven't both gone shopping; just the same,
in my new black leather phone book there's your name
and the disconnected number I still call.
September 30, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I am late re #tonyharrison death. But these lines from Long Distance still chill me
I believe life ends with death, and that is all.
You haven't both gone shopping; just the same,
in my new black leather phone book there's your name
and the disconnected number I still call.
I believe life ends with death, and that is all.
You haven't both gone shopping; just the same,
in my new black leather phone book there's your name
and the disconnected number I still call.
Evidence that Christmas starts earlier every year
September 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Evidence that Christmas starts earlier every year
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the US if Tylenol actually caused autism
September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
the US if Tylenol actually caused autism
Oops, someone argued with Dr Rutherford re genetics....
All references in my book, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived. I teach coalescence theory at UCL.
September 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Oops, someone argued with Dr Rutherford re genetics....
Love the Yellow Taxi reference
Is there a law against building homes on train station car parks in London?
Yes: Jude Law.
Yes: Jude Law.
September 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Love the Yellow Taxi reference
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”…and pray you'll never know,
The hell where youth and laughter go.”
Siegfried Sassoon, English war poet, born #OTD 1886.
National Portrait Gallery London
The hell where youth and laughter go.”
Siegfried Sassoon, English war poet, born #OTD 1886.
National Portrait Gallery London
September 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
”…and pray you'll never know,
The hell where youth and laughter go.”
Siegfried Sassoon, English war poet, born #OTD 1886.
National Portrait Gallery London
The hell where youth and laughter go.”
Siegfried Sassoon, English war poet, born #OTD 1886.
National Portrait Gallery London
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“As the clever hopes expire,
Of a low dishonest decade…
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again…”
September 1 1939, by W.H. Auden, poet 1907-1973
Portrait by Cecil Beaton 1930, National Portrait Gallery London
Of a low dishonest decade…
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again…”
September 1 1939, by W.H. Auden, poet 1907-1973
Portrait by Cecil Beaton 1930, National Portrait Gallery London
September 1, 2025 at 5:00 AM
“As the clever hopes expire,
Of a low dishonest decade…
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again…”
September 1 1939, by W.H. Auden, poet 1907-1973
Portrait by Cecil Beaton 1930, National Portrait Gallery London
Of a low dishonest decade…
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again…”
September 1 1939, by W.H. Auden, poet 1907-1973
Portrait by Cecil Beaton 1930, National Portrait Gallery London
Reading @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social brilliant book "What We Cannot Know" and discovered the mind blowing definition of a second. I will never look at the caesium-133 atom in the same way again.
August 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Reading @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social brilliant book "What We Cannot Know" and discovered the mind blowing definition of a second. I will never look at the caesium-133 atom in the same way again.
@sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed "The Wrath to Come". Not only did you provide a devastating critique of Gone With the Wind, I found the information about the antebellum fascinating. Especially as I had just finished Percival Everett's "The Trees".
July 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
@sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed "The Wrath to Come". Not only did you provide a devastating critique of Gone With the Wind, I found the information about the antebellum fascinating. Especially as I had just finished Percival Everett's "The Trees".
@drfernriddell.bsky.social I enjoyed last night's discussion with @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social. To me (as a graduate of History) I found the story of finding and evaluating documents as intriguing as the subject (which was fascinating).
July 25, 2025 at 8:18 AM
@drfernriddell.bsky.social I enjoyed last night's discussion with @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social. To me (as a graduate of History) I found the story of finding and evaluating documents as intriguing as the subject (which was fascinating).
@shannonvallor.bsky.social I know you are resting from Bluesky,but I wanted to say how thought provoking your discussion on @ppfideas.bsky.social about Tech was. It made me change some of my assumptions.
July 12, 2025 at 10:54 AM
@shannonvallor.bsky.social I know you are resting from Bluesky,but I wanted to say how thought provoking your discussion on @ppfideas.bsky.social about Tech was. It made me change some of my assumptions.
Yep
July 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Yep
Brilliant
Conspiracy theorists should be required to do work experience in government departments so they can see firsthand the impossibility of any vast secret government conspiracies.
July 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Brilliant
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NEW: Cheaper batteries mean near-24/365 solar is now economic☀️
We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get.
The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵
We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get.
The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵
June 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
NEW: Cheaper batteries mean near-24/365 solar is now economic☀️
We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get.
The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵
We analysed 18 years of hourly insolation data at 12 places, to see how close to 24/365 electricity it was possible to get.
The sunniest places get over 90% - and up to 99% - of the way... from just $100/MWh. 🧵
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order.
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order.
And the people bowed and prayed
To this neon God they'd made
And the sign flashed out its warning
I'm the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order."
To this neon God they'd made
And the sign flashed out its warning
I'm the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "perhaps a tweak to the algorithm is in order."
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order.
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
No thing beside remains. Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order.
June 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order.
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order.