Stewart
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Particle physics and nonsense, mainly
Interesting consequence.of phonetics for early years is that my child can't read but can write out surprisingly elaborate messages. This is a well-known children's song. Any guesses?
Before the AI revolution it was impossible to conceive of a place where everyone spoke German
"You can't beat it. I have it every day and I want it every day." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Pendulum Hotel Manchester: the chances of my booking a return visit right now while I'm currently visiting are... slim
I found this exchange between Evan Shinners and Brad Mehldau illuminating. I think a lot of people still get into GG early on. I went through a mortifying adolescent stage of hunching over the piano like him. From Evan's wonderful idiosyncratic Bach podcast wtfbach.substack.com/p/special-gu...
These look very similar to @colin-fraser.net classic Dumb Monty Hall problem from 2023 medium.com/@colin.frase... and others doing the rounds like "should I walk or drive to the carwash". Do you reference any of these?
Most of those would probably come under defence R&D, which makes up a small (and falling) part of defence spending. Maybe there's a higher level of defence R&D spending that would lead to economic dividends. Although the counter-argument is: why would that be better than a focus on another area?
Just dinished reading Stanley in Space to my child. Unbelievably angry that he doesn't go flat once in the entire book
Not your main point (which I don't have a particular view on) but we do now spend significantly more on health than on defence ifs.org.uk/data-items/p...
Don't worry, the giant relief of Brunel's head at the ss Great Britain isn't real and cannot hurt you The giant relief of Brunel's head at the ss Great Britain:
Any questions about TGJones? *hands go up* Any questions that aren't about the name? *hands go down*
is the book on the right related to Muriel Howorth? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...