People don't fall in love with English; they use English, well, a sort of simplified international variant of English. English is the global language of work and commerce. People love and play in the… (View Post)

And windy. (View Post)

Yes, I used it as one of the clues for a techie Easter egg hunt a couple of years ago. The kids were mildly amused. (View Post)

Our presence in this universe appears to be the result of a long series of lucky circumstances. These include: The fortuitous value of the fine structure constant, which, if it were a little differen… (View Post)

It's hard to say how much that strategy would have helped. At least some lost production is due to people actually being ill with Covid rather than being due to the measures taken to mitigate the spr… (View Post)