10 years of TYR, 33 of YR
TYR’s 10th blogday was the 10th of June. My birthday is this week. Is anyone interested in a pint this weekend?
Read More 10 years of TYR, 33 of YRJuly 2013
Lynton Crosby briefs the Cabinet. Vomit now, it will save time
OK, so Lynton Crosby is all better now so long as conditions. What are these conditions? After all, they define the limits of acceptable behaviour in our society. It looks like he’s not allowed, or won’t be allowed, or shouldn’t have been allowed to take part in ministerial meetings or sight government documents. The interesting…
Read More Lynton Crosby briefs the Cabinet. Vomit now, it will save timeFreie und Hansestadt Hamburg
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Read More Freie und Hansestadt HamburgThe ignorant cannot be given fact pills. We’d better deal with it
We are ignorant and we are wrong and even pathologically ignorant. Or perhaps, following Dan Davies, we can’t do percentages. Either way, the Royal Statistical Society poll is bracingly depressing. I occasionally talk about the “deficit model of ignorance”. In the light of the poll, I thought I’d set it out more clearly. The deficit…
Read More The ignorant cannot be given fact pills. We’d better deal with it#ifIhadglass I’d probably crash the aeroplane
With luck, the image of Asiana Flight 214 burning out on the end of Runway 28R at San Francisco International Airport should become an icon of our future. I just crash landed at SFO. Tail ripped off. Most everyone seems fine. I'm ok. Surreal… (at @flySFO) [pic] — https://t.co/E6Ur1XEfa4 — David Eun (@Eunner) July 6,…
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