“I’m staying up extra late tonight to see a test train pull into Brighton Station.” Francis Bourgeois is unapologetically joyful about trains.
Do Americans Know What a Massive Ripoff American Life Really Is?
What it Means When I Say America is the World’s First Poor Rich Country
I guess we should have a Canadian election thread
Because I guess there’s a Canadian election today.
In the ancient Americas, female big-game hunters were common
“Haas then looked at hundreds of records of burials across North and South America, and pulled examples where biological sex had been determined and big-game hunting tools were present with the remains. He found an almost equal amount of females as mal…
Dance of the p values
“You could play this at parties, develop a dance for the dance of the p values and reflect on how ridiculous it is that p values are right at the centre of our thinking about drawing conclusions from research.”
Canadian companies quietly made sure CEOs still got their bonuses
“Millions of working Canadians saw their incomes devastated by the pandemic — but according to a new report, dozens of top executives saw their bonus formulas tweaked to make sure they didn’t suffer alongside the rank and file.” (Archive link)
Canadian Federal Election
The writ has dropped. Or… whatever. Less that two years after Canada’s last federal election (previously), Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has decided to try converting his minority government into a majority in the middle of a pandemic. The Conservat…
The one with the helmet
“Hello, ground. It sounds weird, but there’s something to that mindset where you’re just saying hello to everything.” Skateboarder Andy Anderson makes friends with everyone (and everything).
Flocking
The flow of sheep from above. More aerial photography from Lior Patel.