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Things 111: Malady X, Stretching Cat, 3 Panels
Question
(Thanks to Simon for reminding me of this important probability lesson!)
At random, you are tested for Malady X. Alarmingly (particularly given that you don’t even know what Malady X is) the test comes back positive. But you know these tests are not always perfect – there’s a chance that it’s wrong, and you don’t really [...]
Things 100: Spaceship Earth, Fake Hacking, List, Scientific Method, Owlbears
It’s Things 100. Time for some particularly epic Things.
Video
I remember reading (in Critical Path, lent to me by John) that Buckminster-Fuller felt it was very difficult to watch a sunset or sunrise and intuitively apprehend that what you see is due to the earth turning – but that if we could succeed at doing so, [...]