A bumper Exponential week
A bumper Exponential week
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” –Aristotle
Messy
This photo of Albert Einstein's desk shows his office exactly as he left it before his death in 1955.
'I'm 10, I Was Homeless, Now I'm A Chess Master'
Bertrand Russell’s 10 Commandments:
FREE TALK on black holes!
A Royal Institution (@RI_Science) talk from @Drbecky_ on supermassive black holes.
25th May 7pm BST
Online recording available for a week after.
Today we learnt that…
Did you know that a 'Factoid’ is actually not a tiny fact but actually is:
“an item of unreliable information that is reported and repeated so often that it becomes accepted as fact”.
Robert Frank: The case for adding Darwin to Economics
Costa Rica doesn’t use addresses… that seems quite problematic!
Critical Thinking
You may have read all the rave reviews for NOISE the new book by Kahneman et al, but it is always worth remembering to absorb everything you read with a critical eye.
NEW LECTURE
Professor Sir Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate delivers an original keynote lecture entitled ‘Technology, Inequality, and Social Esteem’. The session takes place on Wednesday 26th May 2021 from 14.00-15.30 BST.
SCIENCE:
The ambitious project to recreate the human brain:
How big is Africa?
BOOK RECOMMENDATION: The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World.
