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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. – Richard Feynman, Cargo Cult Science

Programming Note

Steve asked me to put up a post to let everyone know that he is in Deep Springs visiting Jackson, Nikki and Eli. Internet access isn’t the best there, so he will most likely not be posting much for the time being.

Women’s Working Equine Partners

Shepherd’s burro in Bulgaria A new report estimates that there are 112 million working equine animals in the world, providing support to hundreds of millions of poor households in both rural and urban areas throughout the developing world. The breakdown includes: • 43 million donkeys; • 11 million mules; and • 58 million horses. Here …

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Pluvi wins a big one

Helen Macdonald has just won the Samuel Johnson Prize, a VERY big deal. Nice to see prizes go to someone whose writing eminently deserves it, especially when her choice of subject is so quirky, even controversial, as falconry. It may say something about literary England– or nature loving England– that they would give a prize …

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