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When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy. - I.J. Good (Isadore Jacob Gudak)

A Short History of Probability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_points http://homepages.wmich.edu/~mackey/Teaching/145/probHist.html

RIP

Punting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Waterhouse

Colombia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Báez

Lewis the Koala (and his mob, functionally) https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/26/koala-rescued-from-nsw-bushfire-dies-due-to-extensive-burns

A bunch of sheep https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/25/rescue-mission-for-14000-sheep-on-sinking-ship-abandoned-black-sea

McDonalds '100% Beef' https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-100-beef/

McDonalds 'Shake or Milkshake' https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/a-fair-shake/

F.U.

Pelicanistan

Also penguins, and others. https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-50095808

Westpac

Things

The "HALF index" - Human Appropriation of Land for Food https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959378016302370

More food and land graphs/maps https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

The Parmi Wars https://www.goodfood.com.au/eat-out/news/adam-liaw-writes-in-defence-of-the-chicken-parma-20190911-h1hxi9

Naughty Vlads and Vladettes https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/nov/25/wada-recommend-four-year-ban-russia-athletics https://www.bbc.com/sport/50551384 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2020

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