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Watched: Ticket to Paradise 🍿 I didn’t like this one very much. It had all the right pieces: notable actors, beautiful location, a light-hearted plot. The problem is that I really didn’t like the characters.
Elena Belogolovsky writes: Congratulations to the R Core Team on receiving the 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics. R has made creative, open-ended statistical analysis and graphics accessible to generations of statisticians and applied...
The precise biology behind the Venus Flytrap’s stunningly fast activation has been figured out, finally. CC-licensed photo by Mark Freeth on Flickr. You can sign up to receive each day’s Start Up post by email. You’ll need to click a …...
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“All Things Work Together for Good” By: Mauro Russo The Lord carries out his plans through our lives without ever cancelling our will or our freedom. Starting from this truth, the words of the Apostle Paul ring out as an absolute...
humans are really not built for first principles analytical thinking. even smart people find it incredibly exhausting.
Back in 2010, I wrote a blog post, Thinking about Time-Travel, prompted by a question raised on Twitter – ‘What advice would you give to your sixteen year-old Self?’ The advice I wrote then was: “Don’t bother with uni. And take English...
A week or so ago, I posted about my currently ongoing fitness challenge where the goal was to go down from the almost 90kg I was weighing to below the oldest measurement I had on record, which was an 85.3kg. Side note: that’s the oldest...
Sign in the window of a convenience store, Reykjavík, 2004(Tobacco advertising is prohibited in Iceland) Kristín Commenting: Don't you just love our sense of humour...
Seth Pick. Songs prep the brains of finches yet to hatch for a hot world Exposure to parents’ “heat calls” makes finch young more resilient…