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Hello! I’m Salvo

Graduate student at Georgetown in Learning, Design, and Technology. Co-creator of the World of the Weasel series of books for kids 4-10 and founder of Spitball Studio, developing and producing stories for kids large and small.

I love to engage both my left and right brain. If creative and analytical work were polarized like handedness, I’d count myself among the ambidextrous. I believe they are not mutually exclusive, however, but meant to reinforce each other.

SalvoLavis.com is a digital reflection of my personal interests. Read more about me.

Latest Posts

When ChatGPT Says it Knows it’s Wrong

When I asked ChatGPT to help me with research, it knowingly fabricated all its sources.
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Beautiful Blackboards of Mathematicians

There’s something wonderful about chalk on a blackboard.
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Not a real math problem

The New York Times on mathematicians talking about their hatred for the the 8 ÷ 2(2+2) = ? “problem.”
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Film Review: Who Will Write Our History?

My review of an exceptional documentary film that tells the story of resistance through documentation of daily life in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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The kilogram is getting a makeover

The way we define a kilogram (and pounds too) is basically a high-tech refinement of a medieval technology. That’s about to change as the most influential bar in Paris is shutting down.
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The Permanent, Unmistakable Mark Human Beings Have Left on Planet Earth

Have we entered a new geologic era, the Anthropocene? Or put differently: hundreds of thousands of years from now, when future geologists sift the earth for clues about our present day, what lasting evidence of our existence will they find?
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Announcing World of the Weasel

I’m excited to announce the launch of World of the Weasel, a series of picture books for kids and the adults who read to them!
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What would our planets look like if you flew by?

Artist Michael Benson has made some pretty fun and stunning images of celestial bodies in our solar system rendered in a manner that supposedly mimics the way our human eyes would perceive them if we were to fly by.
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A Stradivarius Recovered

A beautiful story on NPR from legal correspondent Nina Totenberg about her late father’s stolen Stradivarius violin.
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