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File this in the bucket of items requiring "slow thinking" ala Kahneman.There is an active outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite in multiple U.S. states, which the formidable epidemiologists at the CDC are investigating. I featured their work in Chapter 2 of Numbers Rule Your World (link). The scientists have narrowed...
This comic was originally funded by members of my Patreon, to whom I am endlessly grateful. If you like it and want to see more, why not become a member yourself? The post Greebo Chapter 7: Showdown, Part 2 appeared first on Other Strangeness â merritt k.
Sometimes strange things occur accidentally. The other night I cooked a meal that was technically vegan - without even realising it!There's no way I'd have done this deliberately, unless it was for some sort of project or challenge, and I only realised while we were eating it, but, hey-ho, I did my little tiny bit...
Posted to Warpâs social media channels today is an image that simply says tomorrow. Displayed using the typography taken from the keyboard of a Sinclair ZX81, this is almost certainly a reference to the long awaited Drukqs repress as the original release utilised the same font. Stay tuned for a news update tomorrow....
How can craft help you gain traction? That was the question Harry and I explored in episode 41 of Traction Heroes. I brought to the conversation a short reading from a book that had a big impact on my career, Chris Crawfordâs The Art of Computer Game Design: Games must be designed, but computers must be programmed....
So it has been a really long time I have not been blogging. I kept telling myself everyday that I need to update my blog, with something, but I cannot find anything really blog-wrothy. A lot has happened since my last post. Like I piggy back students into MIT and almost got locked in their terrace. I'm back at...
Today I visited a refugee school that house 96 students. It is located in the poorer parts of the city. The school is right on top of a restaurant. They took about 3 floors. When I walked up the stairs to the school, the first thing it hit me was the smell. It is a unique smell that I could not describe. It is...
This weekâs edition of Culture.pl contains an article by Zachary Mazur written in 2022 that heralds his new book entitled To Kill a Spy: Everyday Nationalism and Political Violence in Fin-de-Siecle Europe from Amsterdam University Pressâs CEU Press imprint later in 2026. Here are excerpts from most of the text of...
In speedrunning, there's a common routine where the runner is focused less on improving skill and consistency and more on beating the Law of Large Numbers. At times it can feel like the payoff of "more practice" is just less than the benefit of "just do some runs." When does that happen, and when it does what does...
A new seasonal song, for this moment in American politics! 99 Bottles of⊠What?! Americans of a certain vintage are acquainted with the tedious childrenâs song, â99 Bottles of Beer on the Wallâ. [1] We have a somewhat more immediately applicable variant upon that theme for this portion of the political calendar,...
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