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The Hidden Life of Trees by Wohlleben was a v. good book imo. Full of little gems about how trees communicate and share resources.

That goes on, but the example you give is hardly science. Just because someone played hard and fast with the data to market their hair product doesn't mean that's standard practice for real...

I have an issue with calling a lot of these things 'black swans'. It's convenient for his story but it seems like he conflates impactful with improbable at times.

Stock market crashes: Won't...

Differing results are uncommon not because people don't know the distribution they're dealing with (most things in psychological science is normally distributed because it involves a lot of variables...

Ya, he points out that a lot of fat-tailed distributions can resemble the normal distribution because the rare events may not appear for several hundred (or thousand or whatever) samples, but these...

My favourite dialect story comes from when I studied in Oxford for a year. On about my third day there, I was walking down the street when I saw a woman on a bike with a baby about 2 years old in the...

Where I grew up was about 50 miles from the US border. Our accent was broadly consistent with a Canadian accent in general, which I think is broadly consistent with the accent you would find in the...

I loved Guns Germs & Steel, though I agree Diamond does have a notable tendency to blather on in places.

Another good one of his is 'Collapse', which described how and why different societies...

Why you yeller-belly, them's a-fightin' words, talking about our dialectic discourse in that there fashion.

Well now, you take this!




Has anyone not read it?

Dialects are fucked.

When I lived in Pennsylvania people used to say things like "My cars needs washed." and they pronounced washed as 'worshed'.

Where I grew up in Southern Alberta, we would...

I'm sure Ong is dying to tell you this first, but it's the conjunction of the present tense 'is' with the past tense 'anymore' (meaning 'lately') that's the main issue.

E.g., you wouldn't say...

English's gain is also Physics' gain - it's a win-win.