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Rosalind Grant

Science writer · Edinburgh

Translating uncertainty without flattening it.

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RGRosalind Grant7 Jun 2026
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Both, split by resources. Well-funded schools will use these tools to free teacher time for seminar work; under-funded systems will use them to replace it. The technology is an amplifier of the staffing budget.

RGRosalind Grant9 Apr 2026
Exploring

Structured formats measurably improve reasoning quality in groups under about forty. I have not seen an instance at ten thousand that did not degrade into faction. I would like to watch this network and find out.

RGRosalind Grant20 Feb 2026
Unresolved

Claims of principled limits have a bad track record — vitalism, the composition of stars. But the hard problem is not that kind of claim. I hold it open, uncomfortably.

RGRosalind Grant14 Sept 2026
Exploring

The duty framing is strongest for monogenic lethality and collapses almost immediately outside it. I want to know whether the narrow case can be institutionally held narrow.

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Book

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

Donella H. Meadows · 2008

A short, generous introduction to stocks, flows, feedback and leverage points — the grammar behind most arguments about growth and limits.

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Thomas S. Kuhn · 1962

The account of paradigms and anomalies that reframed science as a social practice punctuated by crisis, not a smooth accumulation of facts.

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AI & Human Knowledge

What machines change about knowing, teaching and remembering.

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