Recent links I liked
Hippocratic - A pithy summary of the problems of international meat trading. Though Horse d’oeuvres
shows that the scandal is fortuitously well-timed for some.
XKCD has been on steroids.
Keeping up is hard to do - for a member of the House of Lords.
The relationship between child’s play and scientific exploration – even babies test their hypotheses on observed evidence.
Google statistician Nick Chamandy knows that without becoming intimate with the raw data structure, and the many considerations involved in filtering, cleaning, and aggregating the data, the statistician can never truly hope to have a complete understanding of the data.
Thomas Gray & the Hermit Tradition
Mains didn’t show up in The Times (the London one) till 2003, then quickly became the accepted term in restaurant reviews. So truly, we have Giles Coren (Times restaurant critic since 2002) to blame for that.
