Entanglement, Information, Uncertainty, and Poker

Entanglement, Information, Uncertainty, and Poker

Today in Atomic Farming at Mezzacello Urban Farm, my MenTern, Grady co-taught a section on Quantum Entanglement through a card game called, “Indian Poker”. In this game, each players “wears” a card on their forehead and has to guess what their card is. In the quantum world this is entanglement and decoherence. When you know one piece of data, you can INSTANTLY collapse all fields and know everything. This is how human consciousness, chicken eyes, and quantum computers work.

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The Super Small and the Quantum World
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The Super Small and the Quantum World

We hear a lot about the super small and the quantum world in our emerging tech in the world, but do we really understand the implications? It’s not enough for something to be small; it must also come with the magic that is ONLY possible when you are dealing with the world of very short distances and volumes that even light has issues with.

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Emerging Products at Mezzacello.org

Emerging Products at Mezzacello.org

Mezzacello Urban Farm is committed to sustainability and organic solutions to food and resources. Each year we design, build, test and modify a fertilizer product line to share our wealth. Last summer we created “Fintastic Fertilizer” a emulsion of algae, fish waste, gypsum, and comfrey tea. The summer camp kids tested and modified the product and designed the marketing.

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A Fresh Take on Summer Camps: One-Day Workshops & Mentorship in Action

A Fresh Take on Summer Camps: One-Day Workshops & Mentorship in Action

At Mezzacello Urban Farm, I’ve always taught summer camps using a mix of the design cycle, systems thinking, and mentorship. But this year, a small shift sparked a big idea: what if one-day workshops could deepen and extend the impact of our week-long camps?

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