Wonderfully rich detail in the 5 podcast series from Brady Heywood on Apollo 13 🎙

The Travellers finale is a very satisfying ending to a great TV series 📺

There are useful lessons in this discussion of statistical significance for any evidence-informed process. There’s no magic number, uncertainty matters, and judgement is required.

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie is a great book with an intriguing main character, compelling plot, and fascinating world building 📚

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Garry Kasparov: The 8-year-old chess champion’s story is quintessentially American

Talent is universal, but opportunity is not, and talent cannot thrive in a vacuum.

This is a great example of using the tidyverse for graph analysis #rstats

A good reminder to choose your models carefully when trying to prove something

An interesting article about changes in our perspective on Neanderthals. They are no longer primitive brutes

Cool research showing that embryos use an optimal Bayesian decoder to coordinate development

A timely article on how Pi led to infinity and calculus

Although I’m late to reading Michael Lewis' The Long Short, it’s hard to believe it is non-fiction. The story of the sub-prime mortgage crisis is incredible 📚

Thanks to @t_rig for the great goodr sunglasses

Emma’s hair has gone curly

Great to be back at the Royalton! 🏖

This was a really good episode of the Mindscape podcast all about the multi-worlds theory of quantum physics

Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking is a fun book. Clear and concise answers to some important questions, written with Hawking’s whimsy and fully demonstrating his impressive curiosity 📚

Lots of fresh snow today

Although I’m disappointed the Counterpart wasn’t renewed for a third season, the second season ended really well. Definitely one of my favourite shows of the past few years.

Finished reading: Wool by Hugh Howey 📚