Returning From The Hayfield by Arthur Hacker (1858-1919)
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Tuesday, August 2, 2022
Monday, August 1, 2022
Groaning Oldies
From Friar's Club Encyclopedia of Jokes by Barry Dougherty.
What do you get when you cross a porcupine with a tapeworm? About ten feet of barbed wire.
History
Did you know that the Korean Peninsula has the highest concentration of Dolmens in the world?
— Tocharus (@Tocharus) July 3, 2022
At over 35,000 dolmens, they have over 40% of the world’s dolmens and we don’t know why. pic.twitter.com/Ha154qtkJL
An Insight
Forgotten principles of public health #7 https://t.co/ZoZXbkWMEg
— Martin Kulldorff (@MartinKulldorff) July 1, 2022
I see wonderful things
This blue Lobster was caught off the coast of Portland yesterday and returned to the water to continue to grow. Blue lobsters are one in two million. pic.twitter.com/6chTk7PoLP
— Lars-Johan Larsson (@LarsJohanL) July 3, 2022
It was a decision based on all known information plus a life-time of deep-sea experience.
From The U-Boat War 1914-1918 by Edwyn A Gray. Page 15. On the sinking of the Lusitania.
Groping beneath the surface at less than 5 knots U-20 was rapidly losing ground.But, despite Schwieger’s fears, the Master of the passenger ship, Captain Turner, was in no great hurry. He was already in receipt of a general warning signal from the Port Admiral at Queenstown that there had been submarine activity in the area and, just before noon, he received a further message that U-boats were in his immediate vicinity. Swinging in a wide arc to clear the Fastnet, where he thought the enemy might be lying in ambush, Turner pushed on into the St George’s Channel. And, as a precaution, he ‘had all boats swung when we came into the danger zone.’As the Old Head of Kinsale came into view he rang down to the engine rooms for a reduction in speed from 21 to 18 knots. As he explained later: ‘My reason for going eighteen knots was that I wanted to arrive at Liverpool bar without stopping, and within two or three hours of high water.’It was a decision based on all known information plus a life-time of deep-sea experience. According to the Admiralty warning signals the U-boats, if there were any, were well astern by now and, in any case, his speed of 18 knots was amply sufficient to outpace any stray submarines he might encounter. Unfortunately the decision, made correctly and in all good faith, was to cost the lives of 1,198 innocent men, women and children.
Decision making in complex or chaotic systems is a balancing of probabilities tightly constrained by incomplete information. The best decision can still be wrong.
Offbeat Humor
<Poland frantically roots around its wallet to find its NATO membership card> pic.twitter.com/biPUzWbWCq
— Jennifer Grant 🚜 (@SilenceInPolish) July 2, 2022
Data Talks
...higher mortality for lockdown countries was identified https://t.co/UESRZdFC6r
— Lucio Martelli (@LucioMM1) July 1, 2022
Brooklyn Bridge in Winter, 1904 by Childe Hassam
Brooklyn Bridge in Winter, 1904 by Childe Hassam
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Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972 by David Hockney (born 9 July 1937)
Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), 1972 by David Hockney (born 9 July 1937)
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