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"Suppose an event has two possible explanations. The explanation that requires the fewest assumptions is usually correct. Another way of saying it is that the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68515515
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7cgRMY4opc&ab_channel=80%27s90%27sMusic...
https://metamodel.blog/posts/texas-heat-wave/
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'No Mans Land'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"Fiction reflects cultural anxieties at large. Last week, the Times’ Matthew Parris lamented the skills being lost to information technology: map reading, handwriting, mental arithmetic. Our ability to remember any information that can be Googled is often added to such lists. A second concern is that automation is making our lives less healthy, and more artificial."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/09/cannot-read-a-map-...
"Officials working for Gove, the secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities, have drawn up plans for “trailblazer” departments to pilot the scheme, according to documents that have been circulated."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dt7JpN7Bv0
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/09/legal-row-banksy-re...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo&ab_channel=RareEarth
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/08/pentagon-ufo-report-hiding...
"The transition to station life was “not that hard” since both had previous stints there, said Williams, who will soon take over as station commander. “This is my happy place. I love being up here in space,” she said."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/sep/14/we-retraced-captain-cooks-...
"This huge road trip, including encounters with crocodiles and dingy motels, formed the spine of a book, but the book itself is not our story. It is the stories of the 70 or so people who shared their lives, history and perspectives with us."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/13/stuck-astronauts-boeing-...
A 'Red-Headed' Read
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"He has flown straight from Texas in his Gulfstream to bask in the adulation of his new lord and master. He has also paid several hundred million dollars, plus a month of his time, to be here. But now his time has come."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwygxe102ydo
"Thomas Cromwell made himself indispensable to Henry VIII in the 1530s and – as viewers of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light are soon to discover – ultimately that was not a great career move."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2e71pl4yrjo
"Gavin allegedly came up with the scheme after reading a Sherlock Holmes story, The Red-Headed League. In it, Arthur Conan-Doyle's hero waits in a vault for burglars planning to tunnel in."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jp7JzaOrao
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/16/elon-musk-donald-trum...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gB3U70zE5g
lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dABcmAbm-fk
'Moe’s Tavern'
Submitted by Captain Qalypso on
"A few, should the predictions get worse, may go full survivalist, filling their bunkers with tinned carrots. But their number will be small. The news cycle is hardly relaxing at the moment, the old order as frangible as digestive biscuits."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y494xkp3yo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=733O0xJDx8o
"The tone, and length, of the announcements has varied, sometimes leaving Pope-watchers to attempt to read between the lines."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/commentisfree/2025/feb/22/the-observ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIDkbt4Cy0
Bless his little Cotton Socks.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/28/cornish-lighthouses-fog-...