Hello,
Here's what I have published on the blog:
Here's the best of what I have published on Medium (free to access from this email):
Here's the interesting stuff I have learned:
Michael Crichton coined the term Gell-Mann Amnesia effect to describe the tendency to forget how unreliable a source is in one area when you trust it in another area.
The Matthew Effect is the tendency of individuals to accrue social or economic success in proportion to their initial level of popularity, friends, and wealth. Eg: “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer”.
Astroturfing is the practice of hiding the sponsors of a message or organization to make it appear as though it originates from “organic” participants.
China built the fastest train running at 453 km/h.
I came across those “self-heating” jacuzzis and I thought it was too awesome not to share!
The Nothing 2 phone came out but…it doesn’t seem like many people care.
Plastic was invented by Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland in New York in 1907.
The Samaritans still exist to this day, but they are only…874.
Alexander the Great founded Alexandria (Egypt) in -323 and his dynasty, the Ptolemies, ruled Egypt until Cleopatra, who was Greek, lost against Caesar.
Apparently, most Italians had not heard of pizzas in the 1950s and the Tiramisu is a US invention (like the pizzeria.)
The House of Windsor, the Royal British Family, was originally named the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (from Germany). The name was changed to Windsor due to anti-German sentiments during WWI. The UK has been ruled by seven different houses since William the Conqueror, the last person to have ever conquered Great Britain in 1066.
Saudi Arabia has a reported $1.3 trillion worth of minerals in its mines.
Rental prices in Dubai are skyrocketing, in line with what we’ve been saying here for many months now. The city never sold as many apartments as now in the last 10 years.
Studies have reported that smartphone usage increased the chance of divorce.
The psychologist Jonathan Haidt on the importance of free play: we have overprotected children in the real world, where they need a lot of free play and autonomy while underprotecting them online, where they are not developmentally ready for much of what happens to them.
Gaming is up 50% since 2019 for young men, while work and exercise are down.
Here are alternatives to the Camino de Santiago trail (walked each year by 350 000 people).
And here’s a video of a monkey swiping pics on a screen.
The graph depicts the average speed of the Tour de France winners since the 1900s. IMO the evolution is more a result of improved technology rather than drugs.
See you in two weeks,
Auré :)