This Substack, written by Kim Kastens and Tim Shipley, provides essays about systems that are underlain by feedback loops, picking up on topics or issues that are current in the news or broader zeitgeist. The essays can be read on a web browser or can be received by email subscription; either way, access is free.
Fostering Feedback Loop Thinking
This SERC landing page is home to a variety of materials designed for STEM instructors to use in their classrooms and to enhance their own understanding of feedback loops. The materials include 6 activities, feedback loop papers, and past feedback loop webinars.
This essay series, “Places that Reveal the Geological Mind,” we explored what goes on in a mind at the cutting edge of disciplinary practice and when first learning geology. We selected a series of places on Earth that reveal both geological processes and the mental processes that extract knowledge from rocks.