Or scientists or engineers or doctors or lawyers into executive leadership. The problem is we pay executives more, when we should pay the best scientists etc... the same to keep them in the jobs wher… (View Post)

Dollar-sized potato cakes with a dollop of creme fraiche and the caviar perched on top. (View Post)

Me too. Although my limited knowledge relates mostly to words borrowed from Arabic. There are the obvious ones (alcohol, algebra, alchemy, genie) but lots of less obvious ones (e.g. magazine, tariff,… (View Post)

I think averages like population density may not be prime movers in epidemiology. I think network theory is a more productive approach. How many hubs are there, which are the highest density hubs wit… (View Post)

Interesting formulation of the reporting: "now thinks Brexit will be twice as damaging" when in fact they have not revised at all their estimate of the damage Brexit would do, but rather th… (View Post)