Good points of the problem with nudge backed "policies"... they're pretty completely avoiding to address the difficult political questions.
OK... I think it's the best animation I've ever seen on that particular topic. Very well done!
Ever wondered about the details of a mechanical watch? Here is an excellent primer. Lots of attention to details.
Very interesting debunk of the Dunning-Kruger effect. This is welcome since I see it pervasively cited. Also comes with a few interesting facts introduced by the papers which critiqued it first.
Excellent deep dive in how GPS works. It goes all the way down to the signal processing. It's really nice to see how many layers of complexity this technology carries.
A good reminder on how science and politics are more intertwined than we'd like to believe. It also shows why trying to have politics determined only by science brings its own set of biases in itself and can only lead to killing any form of debate or compromises.
Nice comics explaining in a simple way how this works.
Somewhat surprising, never looked at ketchup this way but indeed it's a fair non-newtonian fluid. I guess it didn't occur to me because I user and encounter it too seldomly. :-)
Funny way to recall some of the odd complexity classes. :-)
I almost had tears in my eyes watching this. I think it's amazing to have for the first time such beautiful footage of a rover descent and to see such nice videos of the Mars surface. It's just a great feat from NASA.
This is an excellent reminder on how the Popperian falsification came to be and how weak it is. More surprising are the ethics and politics ramifications of it and how they got used.
As usual with Zeynep Tufekci a mind bending article about the heuristics one might use at times when official institutions are simply trying to lie to your face and when they switch to authoritarian mode. This is indeed times when it becomes very hard to trust information and make sense of the world... how to overcome that? Well there are a few examples in that article.