No Nobel for you!

How the philosopher Henri Bergson helped ensure there was no nobel prize for Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. (He got it for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, though.)

Are scientific theories really better when they are simpler?

Ockham’s Razor says that simplicity is a scientific virtue, but justifying this philosophically is strangely elusive.

There is no death, only a series of eternal ‘nows’.

“(…) the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion” —Albert Einstein.

The priest is such a cock.

I don’t think it means a thing, but it’s very nicely done.

How Music Taste Evolved – every top 5 song, from 1958 - 2016, so we can stop arguing about when music was still good.

Want to Know What Facebook Really Thinks of Journalists?

“According to five former members of Facebook’s trending news team—‘news curators’ as they’re known internally—Zuckerberg & Co. take a downright dim view of the industry and its talent. In interviews with Gizmodo, these former curators described grueling work conditions, humiliating treatment, and a secretive, imperious culture in which they were treated as disposable outsiders. After doing a tour in Facebook’s news trenches, almost all of them came to believe that they were there not to work, but to serve as training modules for Facebook’s algorithm.”

Brazil Ponders an Erotic Theme Park, With No Sex Allowed.

Stairway to plagiarism.

This Bar-Brawling Lawyer Might Just Take Down Led Zeppelin.

The mysterious properties of the wax in your ear.

Innovation is overvalued.

Hail the maintainers – capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more.