# curios week (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover curios week. Page: Feed: --- ## [Heaps Normal with Nicholas Davis](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/heaps-normal-with-nicholas-davis) _2026-08-19 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Cuts and Curios from this week’s podcast where we dig deep into the idea that AI is actually not exceptional and should be treated like ‘normal technology’. ## [Careers education](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/careers-education) _2026-08-18 · Greg Ashman · Filling The Pail_ Starting at the beginning ## [WYP - Politico Comes to Australia](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/wyp-politico-comes-to-australia) _2026-08-14 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Enjoy our weekly download of politics over a weekend walk with the launch editor of the global bible for political nerds Ryan Heath. ## [Curios of the week #180](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-the-week-180) _2026-08-14 · Greg Ashman · Filling The Pail_ Everything you need to know about education right now ## [Mind Craft with Miah Hammond-Errey](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/mind-craft-with-miah-hammond-errey) _2026-08-14 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Cuts and curios from this week’s show where we discuss cognitive readiness and how information is the new theatre of conflict. ## [2016 Time Machine](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/2016-time-machine) _2026-08-11 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Some cuts and curios from the political year 2016 in preparation for my 10th anniversary Guardian Australia column ## [Bureaucrat SLAMS the Australian Education Research Organisation (AERO)](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/bureaucrat-slams-the-australian-education) _2026-08-11 · Greg Ashman · Filling The Pail_ But is the criticism fair? ## [researchED Melbourne returns](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/researched-melbourne-returns) _2026-08-09 · Greg Ashman · Filling The Pail_ Science of learning on the ninth floor ## [WYP: Hacks are from Mars, Wonks are from Venus](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/wyp-hacks-are-from-mars-wonks-are) _2026-08-08 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Enjoy this week’s cracking episode with Caroline and Denise from the Westminster Tradition, plus a few shots from the rapidly-growing archives for those who are coming to the show late. ## [Curios of the week #179](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-the-week-179) _2026-08-07 · Greg Ashman · Filling The Pail_ Everything you need to know about education right now ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/5kdokME1g0MF) _2026-08-07 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [Roll Your Own with Beth Noveck](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/roll-your-own-with-beth-noveck) _2026-08-05 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Cuts and curios from our first show back after our winter sabbatical where we meet the visiting US academic and author of Reboot: AI and the Race to Save Democracy ## [What’s Your Poison - The Beattie Gambit](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/whats-your-poison-the-beattie-gambit) _2026-08-02 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Some snippets and curios from the this week’s show where got the chance to explain the political play named after the former Queensland Premier. ## [Education’s dark matter](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/educations-dark-matter) _2026-08-01 · Greg Ashman · Filling The Pail_ There is no evidence to inform most of what we do ## [Curios of the week #178](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-the-week-178) _2026-07-31 · Greg Ashman · Filling The Pail_ Everything you need to know about education right now ## [Big Week. Live Shows, Life Choices.](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/big-week-live-shows-life-choices) _2026-07-30 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Well, it’s been quite a week, a perfect storm of Burning Platforms, Essential Report releases, Guardian missives and big personal announcements. ## [Moral panic at the academy](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/moral-panic-at-the-academy) _2026-07-27 · Greg Ashman · Filling The Pail_ Teaching standards and a call to action ## [What's Your Poison: Adios, Adelaide](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/whats-your-poison-adios-adelaide) _2026-07-25 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Some cuts and curios from the ALP National Conference where I recorded this week's show from a sound-proof booth. It was all going well till the security took my beer, ## [Curios of the week #177](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/curios-of-the-week-177) _2026-07-24 · Greg Ashman · Filling The Pail_ Everything you need to know about education right now ## [Burning Platforms Live with Hamish Macdonald](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/burning-platforms-live-with-hamish) _2026-07-22 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Join us in person at Parramatta or online next Tuesday (July 28) at a special forum to support the Democracy Counts campaign. ## [Mathematical Association of Victoria promotes Building Thinking Classrooms](https://fillingthepail.substack.com/p/mathematical-association-of-victoria) _2026-07-21 · Greg Ashman · Filling The Pail_ The opposite of explicit teaching boosted against state government guidance ## [Meet Claude, an AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/oK2Le3tD6jjN) _2026-07-21 · **Sponsored**_ Chat with Claude at claude.ai — a conversational AI assistant. ## [What’s Your Poison: When Worlds Collide](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/whats-your-poison-when-worlds-collide) _2026-07-17 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ My nascent dream of a Marvel Universe of political podcasts came a step closer when my partner in crime on Burning Platforms Lizzie O'Shea met my Evil Twin Dame Damjanovski. ## [Hot Albo’s First Economic Rodeo](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/hot-albos-first-economic-rodeo) _2026-07-15 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ In my Guardian Australia piece today, I frame the Prime Minister’s landmark AI speech around his involvement in a rancorous decades long battle for legitimacy by political economists within the Sydney ## [Equitable Outrage](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/equitable-outrage) _2026-07-10 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Political debrief over the second least expensive bottle of red from the local. Me and Damian Damjanovski rake over the coals with Amelia Metcalf - we kick around ICAC, Kyle and that Telstra outage. ## [The Sydney Table - Crossing the Aisle on Data Centres](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/the-sydney-table-crossing-the-aisle) _2026-07-09 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ This new initiative by the Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue and its chair Chris Brown resonates with a lot of what I'm trying to explore - better modes of disagreement based on civility. ## [Your Palantir Primer](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/your-palantir-primer) _2026-07-06 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ With the controversial US data company’s growing footprint into Australia, now is the time to look closer at who they are and what they do. ## [Retail Politics with Ed Coper](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/retail-politics-with-ed-coper) _2026-07-05 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Here's our latest Friday arvo chat with my old friend, pod-tart and author of Angertainment, a book that has really got me thinking about the way we do politics. ## [How we’ve treated Hanson – a 30-year retrospective](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/how-weve-treated-hanson-a-30-year) _2026-07-01 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ My piece in today’s Guardian Australian argues that meeting Hanson’s anger with our own is a zero-sum game. These artefacts illustrate my point. ## [What's Your Poison - Southern Comrade's Edition](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/whats-your-poison-southern-comrades) _2026-06-28 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Here's your weekend dose of political prognostication from across the political aisle with special guest Danae Bosler from the VTHC. ## [Little Voices with Clare Stuchbery](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/little-voices-with-clare-stuchbery) _2026-06-22 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Updating last week’s show notes a bit late but it’s a great discussion with the head of the Local and Independent News Association about the importance of grassroots media. ## [What's Your Poison - Pauline Edition](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/whats-your-poison-pauline-edition) _2026-06-20 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ Happy weekend readers. I thrash out Hanson's National Press Club speech and what it means for the major parties with my evil twin, Dame Damjanovski. ## [Crush Every Threat in Real Time (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4EHJqM9MZsCC) _2026-06-20 · **Sponsored**_ One agent for real-time detection, exposure tracking, and active defense. ## [Aloha Freaky Alumni](https://burningplatforms.substack.com/p/aloha-freak-alumni) _2026-06-17 · Peter Lewis · Burning Platforms_ More than 30 years go I was a volunteer at 2SER where I was part of the highly chaotic 'Aloha Freaky Monday' collective.