Recent links I liked
The great GIF debate explains, among other things, why Jif (the sink cleaner) had to change its name – to avoid confusion with a brand of peanut butter
Issues with reproducibility at scale on Coursera reproducing someone else’s code or statistical analysis is not as straightforward as you think – or hope it is, or should be.
Staying Ahead of the Tax Man Everybody does it if they can.
Word String frequency distributions - Always check what the numbers mean before you analyse them
Investigating paediatric pain: Q & A with Professor Maria Fitzgerald and
Pain: Anaesthesia and Self-mutilation in the Nineteenth Century One disturbing, one just discombobulating, exploration of past medical views about pain