Saturday, March 25, 2023

Offbeat Humor

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Data Talks

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This map overlays the approximate boundaries of African ethnic groups on top of the modern national boundaries of Africa. #maps #mapping #...

An Alchemist's Laboratory, 1570 by Jan van der Straet (Dutch, 1523-1605)

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An Alchemist's Laboratory, 1570 by Jan van der Straet (Dutch, 1523-1605) Click to enlarge.
Friday, March 24, 2023

History

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Bring back competitive dining clubs. Bring back marauding gourmands. pic.twitter.com/k7DbXmhc8i — Bachman (@ElonBachman) February 20, 2023  ...

Observational studies must address all four quadrants of the Rumsfeld matrix

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I not infrequently disagree with Emily Oster, usually not because I believe she is necessarily wrong but because she often seems to lack con...

An Insight

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For virtually all of human history, almost everyone alive (95%+) was subsistence farmer-level poor. When I was born, that had fallen to abou...

Honesty and truth telling are too high a price to defeat conspiracy theorising

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Over the past six years, there has been a mainstream media or chattering class tendency to deploy the accusation of conspiracy thinking as a...

I see wonderful things

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Slow motion of an enormous lightning strike! That is Zeus? pic.twitter.com/jot13DbD0W — The Figen (@TheFigen_) February 20, 2023  

Offbeat Humor

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Data Talks

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Studies and meta-analyses typically find that men have more general knowledge than women. A variation on this is the male proclivity for ran...