Very excited to welcome Dan Snow into the #CautionaryTalesPod studios to talk about the battle of Crecy, the fall of the Inca empire, and the strange parallels between the two. Dan's charm and erudition are amazing!
timharford.com/2024/04/cautio…

The Oslo commuter railway system is probably more similar to what we have in Leeds.

Here are the maps of,
* Oslo's Tram Network.
* Oslo's Metro Network.
* Leeds' Tram Network.
* Leeds' Metro Network.

'Norway on valium'.

There are some terrific talks here.

Recent holiday read: 'Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea Devils'. A guilty pleasure. Exactly what you might hope for in the ongoing Holmes / Cthulhu mashup. If you think you might enjoy this, you will enjoy this.
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The economics of running ift.tt/SByG7AU

Yet more proof of the power of incentives. Want to live to 110? It's easy if you want it badly enough - and there's no birth certificate...
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Our big idea for Noema Magazine; applying ecology's lessons to technology 'ecosystems':

'Rewilding is a positive vision for the networks we want to live inside, and a shared story for how we get there. It grafts a new tree onto technology’s tired old stock.'

noemamag.com/we-need-to-rew…

'It was more having to reverse the policies — policies that I knew were right, basically — at gunpoint. That was depressing and upsetting.'

Former PM Liz Truss has Lunch with the FT

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Every day we stray further from God’s light. ft.com/content/207f57…

US edition is out in early May: assoc-redirect.amazon.com/g/r/https://ww…

Fancy reading a witty, engaging and deeply nerdy book about how Bayes' Theorem explains the world? 'course you do. It's by Tom Chivers and it's out in the UK next week:
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As elections loom in India, Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party appears to be stronger than ever.

Why does the BJP’s electoral machine keep winning power?

ft.com/content/d5a1df…

hearing James O'Brien stumbling his way through explain the Smokatorium in Mega City One is lifting my morning.

Great conversation between my colleagues Lilah Raptopoulos and Alec Russell about Gaza, Ukraine, Alec's eye-witness reporting on the Rwandan genocide, and how to look at the news when everything seems so disheartening.
ft.com/content/60b665…

'Truss says her focus is growth.... Unfortunately, her approach worked like this: imagine a bunch of people are stuck in a stuffy room. Everyone wants the windows opened, but they're fastened by complicated locks. Liz tries to throw a chair through the window. The chair bounces

Great conversation between my colleagues Lilah Raptopoulos and Alec Russell about Gaza, Ukraine, Alec's eye-witness reporting on the Rwandan genocide, and how to look at the news when everything seems so disheartening.
ft.com/content/60b665…