MLK pairing

After listening to this story
Students Describe What King’s Legacy Means To Them (NPR),

go ahead and have fun spending some time with this “playable post”
The Parable of the Polygons (Nicky Case).

It’s Schelling’s model, redone in a very attractive manner, with some neat policy ideas illustrated at the end, too.

One of the authors says that they “struggled to make the unusual format work and the ideas come through. I mean, if there’s two subjects that get a really defensive and hateful reaction, it’s mathematics and social justice, so we figured we’d do them both at once.”

One of many implementations is in NetLogo’s
Models Library (Northwestern’s CCL)

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